This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
L. W. Andrew, R.N.
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Spitalfields WW1 cairn
The cross is granite and is planted in a cairn of granite boulders, many of w...
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Lao She
Chinese novelist and dramatist. Born Beijing as Shu Qingchun. Lao She was his pen name. Lectured at what is now SOAS 1924 - 9. During this time he discovered Dickens and began his own writing. Best...
Julia Minet
Donor of a mosaic to the Red Cross Garden. She belonged to a public-spirited family of landlords, who funded a library, church and park (Myatt's Fields) for their own tenants in the Camberwell area...
Giovanni Fontana
Born Italy. Based in London and naturalized British by 1871.
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William Carlow
William Henry Carlow was born on 10 February 1923, the second child of William James Carlow (1894-1931) and Mary Jane Carlow née Skeggs. Both his and his sister's, Mary R. Carlow (1921-1980), birth...
Joseph Brodsky
Russian-American poet and essayist. US Nobel Prize Laureate. Born Leningrad. Exiled from the Soviet Union in 1972, he settled in the USA, aided by W. H. Auden and others. There he taught and was ap...
Sheila Hancock
Actor, often in comedy roles. Born in Blackgang, Isle of Wight, she was the younger daughter of Enrico Cameron Hancock (1893-1970) and Ivy Louise Hancock née Woodward (1898-1970).Her father was a p...
Rudolf Nureyev
Ballet dancer. Born Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev on a Trans-Siberian train near Irkutsk, Siberia, while his mother was travelling to Vladivostok. In 1958, he joined the Kirov (later renamed as Mariin...
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