William Huskisson

William Huskisson

Huskisson is famous for being the victim of the first fatal railway accident (not quite true), being run over by the train known as Stevenson's Rocket, at the opening ceremony of the Manchester to ...

Person, Politics & Administration, Tragedy

2 memorials
Paul Martin Hussey

Paul Martin Hussey

British, killed by the Bali bomb, age 46.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Paul Hutcheson

Paul Hutcheson

Cycling to work in the Monday morning rush hour he was hit by a car and killed.  Aged 41 with two children.  A 28-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and fa...

Person, Cyclist, Tragedy

1 memorial
Fireman Peter Brian O’Connell Hutchins

Fireman Peter Brian O’Connell Hutchins

Called to attend a fire in a restaurant in the King’s Road, Chelsea, he entered the building in breathing apparatus, along with his colleague Fireman Colin Comber, to locate the seat of the fire. O...

Person, Emergency Services, Tragedy

1 memorial
Percy Baden Powell Huxford

Percy Baden Powell Huxford

Percy Baden Powell Huxford is the 2nd from the right of the seven boys sitting in the photograph of the scout troop. He was born on 9 May 1900, in Walworth, one of at least ten children of Henry W...

Person, Children, Community / Clubs, Tragedy

2 memorials
Robert Huxley

Robert Huxley

Robert Henry Peter Huxley was one of twin sons born on 22 July 1953 to Walter James Frederick Huxley (1914-1959) and Giovanna Rosa Huxley née Previero (1918-1976) in Thornton Heath, Surrey. His bro...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Hyde Park bomb

Hyde Park bomb

A large nail bomb hidden in a car parked on South Carriage Drive exploded as the Queen's Life Guard passed.  It was set by the IRA and probably controlled remotely.  Four members of The Blues and R...

Event, Terrorism, Tragedy

2 memorials
horses killed and injured in the terrorist bombing at Hyde Park

horses killed and injured in the terrorist bombing at Hyde Park

Seven horses were killed by the bomb or as an act of mercy shortly after.  One, Sefton, was critically injured but survived to become a celebrity.  The Daily Mail have another photo and an extremel...

Animal, Animals, Tragedy

1 memorial
Miriam Hyman

Miriam Hyman

Miriam Jill Hyman was born on 30 November 1972 in the University College Hospital, London, the younger dughter of John Hyman and Mavis Hyman née Morris. Her elder sister Esther Hyman was born in 19...

Person, Tragedy

3 memorials
Ojara Kalu Ikeagwu

Ojara Kalu Ikeagwu

Ojara Kalu Nweke was born on 22 November 1948 in Nigeria. In 1969 she married Dr Okorafor K. Ikeagwu and they went on to have three children. The young family moved to England in 1976, settling in ...

Person, Tragedy, Nigeria

3 memorials
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