Person    | Female  Born 24/2/1827  Died 18/7/1890

Lydia Becker

President of NUWSS prior to Millicent Fawcett and campaigned for voting rights of unmarried women and widows. Also an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy. Best remembered for founding and publishing the Women's Suffrage Journal, 1870-90. Born Manchester. Died France.

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Lydia Becker

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Fawcett frieze - 04, Becker

Lydia Becker, 1827 - 1890

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Rev. Claude Hinscliff

Rev. Claude Hinscliff

Member of Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage, founded the Church League for Women’s Suffrage in 1909 with his wife Gertrude. He officiated at Emily Wilding Davison’s funeral. Later he worked in Serb...

Person, Gender Issues, Religion, Romania, Serbia

1 memorial
Radclyffe Hall

Radclyffe Hall

Novelist and poet.  Born as Marguerite Radclyffe Hall in Bournemouth into a wealthy family. From 1917 until her death Hall lived with Una Troubridge but had a number of affairs with other women.  T...

Person, Gender Issues, Literature, Poetry

1 memorial
Winchester geese

Winchester geese

In medieval London the Bishop of Winchester (e.g. William of Wykeham) had a Palace on the section of the south bank of the Thames nearest here. It included what is now Southwark Cathedral and the b...

Group, Gender Issues

1 memorial
Woodford Green Men's Club

Woodford Green Men's Club

Either the club or its Harrier section was established in 1904.  Its origins are back in the 1880s when it was part of the sports section of the Woodford Green Working Mens' Institute.  More inform...

Group, Community / Clubs, Gender Issues

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Dr Arthur Farre

Dr Arthur Farre

Eminent obstetrician and physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria.  Born Charterhouse Square.  As a friend of Baron Rothschild and obstetrician to his wife, helped him set up the Evelina Children'...

Person, Children, Gender Issues, Medicine

1 memorial

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Sir Roger Cook

Sir Roger Cook

Lord Mayor of London, in September 1997.

Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Fawcett frieze - 04, Becker

Fawcett frieze - 04, Becker

SW1, Parliament Square

Most statues have plinths, which often carry the identity of the statue but little more. The plinth for this Millicent Fawcett statue is ...

1 subject commemorated
Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric Chopin

Composer. Born Zelazowa Wola, Poland of a French emigrant father and Polish mother. Left Poland aged 20, never to return. Despite his long romantic liaison with novelist George Sand (Aurore Dudevan...

Person, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, France, Poland

3 memorials
B. J. Blackledge

B. J. Blackledge

Employee of West Ham Tramway killed in WW1.

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Benjamin Waugh

Benjamin Waugh

Social reformer and minister. Born in Settle, Yorkshire. Whilst working in the slums of Greenwich, he became appalled at the deprivations and cruelties suffered by children. He wrote 'The Gaol Crad...

Person, Children, Religion, Social Welfare

4 memorials