Born Putney. Captain in the Dragoons. One of Scott's four companions who died with him, returning from the South Pole. Frost-bitten and weak he saw that he was slowing down the whole team and so, on his way out the tent, uttered his last words: "I am just going outside and may be some time" never to return. This was on his birthday, or possibly the day before, depending on source.
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Lawrence E. G. Oates
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Captain Scott statue
Sculpted by Kathleen Scott, his widow. There is a replica, in Christchurch, N...
Henry Robertson Bowers - SW16
{Beneath a photograph of Bowers:} Henry Robertson "Birdie" Bowers, 1883 - 191...
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Frederick Catherwood
Artist, architect and explorer. Born at 21 Charles Square. Topographical artist. He visited many Mediterranean countries drawing their monuments and ruins. In 1839-40 Catherwood and John Lloyd ...
1 memorial
John Gregory
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
William (Mole man) Lyttle
Known as the ‘Mole Man’ because he spent forty years digging a series of tunnels under his, and his neighbours' houses in Hackney. It was estimated that he had shovelled out over 100 cubic metres o...
1 memorial
Edwd. Genge
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Robert Golding
Role on the lost expedition: Boy on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
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Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet and philosopher. First non-European Nobel Laureate. Born into a large, rich, assimilated family which had made its fortune from the East India Company. He read law at University Colle...
3 memorials
Queen Elizabeth II
Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on where she was brought up see Byron Statue. When she was 10 her father became King George VI (on the abdication of his brot...
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Lance Corporal Joseph John Bolton
Joseph John Bolton was born on 8 January 1889, the eldest of the five children of Joseph George Bolton (1863-1942) and Emily Bolton née Challis (1859-1947). His birth was registered in the 1st quar...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
St Stephen Coleman
Parish church of St Stephen Coleman Street. Destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and rebuilt by Wren but then finally lost in WW2.
1 memorial
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