Biographer. Date of birth approximate. He married Sir Thomas More’s daughter Margaret in 1521 and wrote More’s biography. He was a member of several parliaments between 1529 and 1558.
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William Roper
{On the stained-glass plaque:} Margaret, a pious & learned woman, the bel...
Parachute mines were used in the early 40s; the end of the war was characteri...
Born Yorkshire. Graduated with and maintained a long friendship with Vera Brittain. Writer, reformer and pacifist.
Soldier and writer. Born in Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France. He enlisted in the French army in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian war. During the First World War he distinguished himself at the battle...
Born Dunmanway, near Cork, Ireland. Politician and writer. He wrote or co-wrote more than 50 novels including ‘Miss Misanthrope’ and ‘Donna Quixote’. Member of parliament from 1886 to 1900. Died Lo...
Author and politician. Born Alan Patrick Herbert at Ashtead Lodge, Ashtead, Leatherhead. He was called to the bar, but never practised. Joined Punch magazine as a writer in 1924 and went on to writ...
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Poet. Probably born in East or West Smithfield. Best known for the epic poem 'The Faerie Queene'. When Queen Elizabeth failed to arrange payment ("a reason") for a poem he wrote: I was promis'd ...
Politician. Member of Parliament from 1768 to 1780. A supporter of John Wilkes, he opposed parliament's right to tax America. Elected Lord Mayor of London in 1775.
This building, the Royal School of Mines, (1906, Aston Webb). has 34 memorials: a foundation stone, 2 busts and 30 scientists' surnames p...
Guy Street Park Originally open fields, the land on which most of Guy Street Park stands belonged to Guy's Hospitial in the 18th century....
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