Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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George A. Armour
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Rossetti fountain
Unveiled by William Holman Hunt. There must have been a committee to erect th...
Other Subjects
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John Henry Buxton
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, did some searching and at the Cambridge Alumni Database he found a John Henry Buxton who was a trustee of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Associati...
3 memorials
1 memorial
William Abbot
Benefactor. The 'Carpinter' on the plaque is thought to indicate his livelihood rather than his surname.
1 memorial
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Michael Faraday
Experimental physicist, especially electro-magnetics (remember Faraday's Law?). Born in Newington Butts but brought up near Oxford Street. Trained as a bookbinder and here he was given tickets to s...
9 memorials
King Henry VIII
Son of Henry VII. Born Born Greenwich Palace, as the spare, not the heir but his brother Arthur predeceased him and their father, aged 15, but not before marrying Catherine of Aragon, who later in ...
23 memorials
Leysian Mission
From Wesley's Chapel and from Kay: The Leys School was opened in Cambridge in 1875; just two years after non-Anglicans were admitted to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It was intended to...
8 memorials
Sir Isaac Newton
Born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, on Christmas day, according to the calendar in use at the time. Died in Kensington (where he had gone in search of country air). The exact dates of birth and dea...
11 memorials
Stoke Newington Literary Festival
From their website in 2022: "Since 2010, we’ve been celebrating the area’s radical and literary history with a festival that’s become one of the most eclectic, diverse and, frankly, FUN in the lite...
1 memorial
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