See Francis Smith for the story.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Thomas Millwood
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Black Lion pub ghost
The ghost was covering quite a large area - St Paul's Churchyard was at what ...
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Robert Aickman
Author and conservationist. Born at 77 Fellows Road, Hampstead. One of the founders of the Inland Waterways Association, where he met and collaborated rather too closely with the author Elizabeth J...
1 memorial
Andrew Lang
Anthropologist and poet. Born at Viewfield, in Selkirk. Chiefly known for his publications on folklore, mythology, and religion. He was one of the founders of 'psychical research' and his writings ...
1 memorial
Lydia Rogers
Supposed witch. The wife of carpenter John Rogers, she belonged to a radical religious sect called the Anabaptists. She was accused of making a blood pact with the devil, who was said to have cut a...
1 memorial
Hannen Swaffer and Mrs Swaffer
Supporters of the Rochester Square Spiritualist Temple.
1 memorial
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Born in Edinburgh where he trained as a doctor. Extremely successful writer of the Sherlock Holmes stories. A sportsman: a boxer, a cricketer who once dismissed W. G. Grace. The first Englishman to...
7 memorials
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Norman Douglas
SW11, Albert Bridge Road, 63 Albany Mansions
The unusual shape of the plaque, is probably due to the fact that there is nowhere large enough on the face of the building, to erect the...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Cornhill market
Cornhill was apparently the only market allowed to be held after noon in the 14th century. Stow reports Cornhill holding a corn-market (not surprisingly) but also old clothes being sold there.
1 memorial
George Padmore
NW1, Cranleigh Street, 22, Cranleigh Houses / Brook House
Padmore was so prominent in the campaign for self-governance in Africa that it is said almost all the independence leaders of Africa pass...
1 subject commemorated,
4 creators
Curtain Theatre
This, the second English purpose-built playhouse was erected very close to the first, The Theatre, and run by the same man, Burbage. Not named for the modern drape on a proscenium arch, but for it...
2 memorials
Lorraine Wilson
Football manager. He founded Dulwich Hamlet Football Club, and was nicknamed 'Pa', because of his paternalistic attitude to his team players, and, we're only guessing, perhaps the players found "Lo...
1 memorial
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