Erection date: 1951
Collingham Garden
The use of this ground for the welfare of children for all time has been bequeathed under the will of John Cyril Lees Collingham who died on May 28th 1936.
Erected by the Governors of the Foundling Hospital 1951.
WC1, Brunswick Square, Coram Family
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Collingham Garden
John Cyril Lees Collingham was born in 1865, the second of the six children o...
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Collingham Garden
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