Naval officer. Born Ireland, Co. Wicklow. "Royal naval biography; or, Memoirs of ..." has a full biography. Lieut-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, where he died.
The Greenwich monument has his name spelt "Farebrother" but all other sources have "Fairbrother".
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Rear-Admiral, Sir William Fairbrother Carroll, KCB
The names on the monument are of men whose claim to immortality is their role...
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
The "Bachelor Duke" after whom the Cavendish banana was named. Born Paris, son of the 5th Duke, who died in 1811. Had a strong interest in gardening and agriculture and gave his estates a lot of a...
A London unit founded in 1860 and whose lineage ended after various amalgamations in 1961. Their Wikipedia page describes the Battalion's history.
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