Chancellor, Archbishop and Martyr. Born Cheapside of French parents. son of Gilbert Becket, mercer. Archbishop of Canterbury, 1162 to his death. Assassinated after his erstwhile friend, Henry II, declared "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"
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Thomas Becket
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Thomas Becket
{On the lower edge of the bust:} S. Thomas [On a modern plaque lower on the...
Thomas Becket statue
Not bronze but a resin which Copnall coloured to simulate bronze. More photo...
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Robert Hanbury, MP
Robert William Hanbury. Conservative politician. President of the Board of Agriculture 1900-3. Married twice but produced no children. See our Hanbury fountain page for information on his Wimbledon...
1 memorial
John Leonard Damian Butterworth
John Butterworth. Master of the Worshipful Company of Founders in 2015. John Leonard Damian Butterworth was born in October 1951,the eldest of the three children of Gerald Leonard Butterworth (192...
1 memorial
John William Dixon
Chairman of the Parliamentary and General Purposes Committee, St Pancras Vestry in 1897.
2 memorials
Benjamin Hopkin Morris
Middlesex County Councillor. Born Merthyr, Glamorgan. Left money in his will to repair the Chiswick almhouses which were then named in his memory. He was clearly a wealthy man: at Have Your Say Ho...
1 memorial
R.A. Robinson
Justice of the Peace and Chairman of the Improvements Committee for the Rotherhithe Tunnel in 1908.
2 memorials
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