An Anglican catechumen from South Africa who was killed by her animist parents at the age of 16. She had refused to stop visiting the missionaries who came to her town to convert them to Christianity.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Manche Masemola
Commemorated ati
Other Subjects
Walter Peart
For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.
Herman Wallace
In 1972 a prison guard was murdered in Angola Prison, Louisiana, USA, where Herman Wallace, Robert King, and Albert Woodfox were prisoners. Wallace and Woodfox were convicted of the murder; King w...
Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA
Roger Brown
A software engineer, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 44. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Roger Stanley Brown was born on 14 April 1955, in Whitley Bay, North...
Owen Thompson
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has researched this young man: Owen Wesley Thompson was born on 11 September 1964 and died, aged 16 years, on 18 January 1981 in a fire at party being held at 439 New C...
Luke Smith
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
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Richard Muzira
SE5, Albany Road
The ghost bike in our photo was stolen but replaced with another in October 2014.
Lemuel Shattuck
Born Massachusetts where he introduced the registration of births, marriages and deaths (hatches, matches and despatches). Published a report on the sanitary conditions of Massachusetts whose recom...
Thomas Neale MP
Entrepreneur, the organiser of England's first lottery. Known as 'The Great Projector' although the layout of the Seven Dials area is his only surviving London project. Neal Street and Neal's Yard...
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