Person    | Female  Born 7/2/1913  Died 3/5/2005

Lady Jean Medawar

Categories: Education, Medicine

Wife of Sir Peter Medawar, the man in our picture, and thus known as Lady Medawar. Worked passionately in the promotion of family planning, especially for young girls. Chair of the Family Planning Association. In the 1950s this was quite revolutionary.
Born in London.

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Lady Jean Medawar

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Sir Peter Medawar tree

The plaque is in front of a tree stump, so that accounts for the "lost" tree ...

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Aske's Hospital

Aske's Hospital

About the building, from Shoreditch College: "The first building on {this site} was Aske's Hospital or the Haberdashers' Alms Houses, erected 1690-93 to designs of Robert Hooke ... for the Worshipf...

Group, Education, Social Welfare

2 memorials
Sir Ralph Turner

Sir Ralph Turner

Professor of Indian languages. Born Charlton, London. Officer in the 3rd Gurkha Rifles. Won Military Cross in Palestine. Died at home, Bishop's Stortford.

Person, Armed Forces, Education, India, Nepal, Pakistan

1 memorial
Mrs Knott's Dame School

Mrs Knott's Dame School

School in Bromley, attended by the young H.G. Wells. Dame Schools were an early form of private elementary school, often found in areas of poverty. They were usually run by women and were often loc...

Place, Education

1 memorial
University of Greenwich

University of Greenwich

Opened as the Woolwich Polytechnic; it became the Thames Polytechnic in 1970 and was granted university status in 1992. 

Place, Education

1 memorial
Westfield College

Westfield College

Founded in 1882 by Constance Louisa Maynard and Ann Dudin Brown, as a residential women's college modelled on women's colleges already established in Oxford and Cambridge. The name probably came fr...

Group, Education, Gender Issues

1 memorial

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Sir Herbert Jessel

Sir Herbert Jessel

Colonel Herbert Merton Jessel, 1st Baron Jessel, British soldier and Liberal Unionist, later Conservative politician. A member of the Westminster City Council, he served as the third Mayor of Westm...

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Karrie Jane Casner

Karrie Jane Casner

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Goldsmiths College

Goldsmiths College

Founded as Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. In 2006 it became Goldsmiths, University of London. Its range of departments includes Art, Design ...

Building, Education

1 memorial