Born in London or Kent. Principle Secretary and 'Spymaster' to Queen Elizabeth I 1573 - 1590. He secured the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Died at home in Seething Lane.
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Sir Francis Walsingham
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Bermondsey Town Hall
The Victorian Town Hall was bombed in WW2 and demolished in 1963. After the bombing the neighbouring municipal offices (1928, H. Tansley) were used for all council needs. Then in 1964 Bermondsey be...
1 memorial
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
Lawyer and statesman. Born 3 Bury Street, died at home at 32 Curzon Street. 2018: A critical Londonist article gives: "A government enquiry found the politician Rufus Isaacs guilty of 'grave impro...
1 memorial
Tom Kelly
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
1 memorial
John Wylde
Renter Warden of the Innholders, 1920 - 21.
1 memorial
Charles William Tagg
Camberwell Town Clerk in 1901. We found our man at Ratcliffe History: "Charles William TAGG. He was born 1860 in Camberwell, Surrey, England[2, 2]. He married Emily Isabel COOKE. They were married ...
2 memorials
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
James Palmer Huffam, VC
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 31 August 1918, age 21, while serving in the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment). "Twice he attacked machine gun posts, putting the first out of action and...
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Captain John Chapman
John Chapman was born circa 1887 in Middleton St George, Durham, the second of the four children of John George Chapman (1860-1941) and Florence Gertrude Chapman née Bent (1863-1950). On the 1891 c...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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