One of the (many) supposed origins of the word 'pom' for an Englishman, is that convicts were branded with the initials of 'Prisoner of Millbank'.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
transportation to Australia
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Millbank Prison - Atterbury Street
This historic bollard was presented by the City of Westminster to the Royal...
Millbank Prison - Australia
This historic bollard was presented by the City of Westminster, London, Engla...
Millbank Prison - Riverside Walk
London County Council Near this site stood Millbank prison which was opened i...
Tolpuddle Martyrs at Copenhagen Fields
Copenhagen Fields From this site on 21st April 1834 thousands marched in sup...
Tolpuddle Martyrs mural
A modern information board informs that the mural was painted by Dave Bangs i...
Other Subjects
Kenny ‘Zulu’ Whitmore
From a 2008 interview with Carrie Reichardt: "Black Panther Kenny ‘Zulu’ Whitmore has been locked up since 1975 in Angola, one of the most brutal prisons in the USA, also known as ‘the last slave p...
Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA
2 memorials
Dieter Bock
Hans-Dieter Bock, or Dieter Bock, was born on 3 March 1939 in Dessau, the capital of the Free State of Anhalt. (This later became the German Democratic Republic and is now Germany). Having fled wi...
4 memorials
William Lambard
Antiquarian, lawyer, politician and writer. His name was also spelt Lambarde. Born London, he studied law at Lincoln's Inn, wrote the 'Perambulation of Kent', (the first English county history) and...
1 memorial
Sir John Fielding
Magistrate. Probably born in Blenheim Street, St James's. Lived in Bow Street. Blinded aged 19 in a navy accident. 14 years younger than his half-brother Henry Fielding, he followed in his footstep...
1 memorial
Philip Noble Fawcett, LL.M.
Philip Noble Fawcett was born on 7 April 1863 in Dublin, Ireland, the younger child of Henry Fawcett (1835-1882) and Mary Maria Fawcett née Noble (1834-1906). On 1 May 1863 he was baptised in St. P...
Person, Armed Forces, Law, Politics & Administration, Ireland
1 memorial
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