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Second Lieutenant Gervase Henry Francis Maude

Subject: Second Lieutenant Gervase Henry Francis Maude

Died 9/4/1917, 109 years ago

Old boy of Wagner School. Gervase Henry Francis Maude was born on 20 March 1896 at 50 Onslow Gardens, Kensington, London, the son of Major Gerald Edward Maude (1851-1934) and Edith Caroline Maude,...

Person, Armed Forces, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Middlesex Hospital - Broderip Ward - gone

Memorial: Middlesex Hospital - Broderip Ward - gone

Erected 9/4/1987, 39 years ago

W1, Mortimer Street

The Middlesex Hospital closed and was demolished in 2008. We cannot trace what has happened to any of its memorabilia, but believe that t...

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Duke of Monmouth

Subject: Duke of Monmouth

Born 9/4/1649, 377 years ago

Born James Scott (or Crofts or Fitzroy) at Rotterdam. Illegitimate son of King Charles II and Lucy Walter. He came to England in 1662 where he was created Duke of Monmouth. 1682 he had Monmouth Hou...

Person, Execution, Royalty, Netherlands

2 memorials
Anna Catherine Pearce

Subject: Anna Catherine Pearce

Born 9/4/1889, 137 years ago

Born Anna Catherine Ricardo on 9 April 1889, her birth was registered in the St Giles-in-the-Fields district of London. She was the second child and elder daughter of the three children of architec...

Person, Friend / family

1 memorial
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Subject: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Died 9/4/2021, 5 years ago

Born at the villa 'Mon Repos', the summer retreat of the Greek royal family, on the island of Corfu. Married Princess Elizabeth in 1947 and was her dutiful consort from 1952 until his death. 2017:...

Person, Royalty, Seriously Famous

31 memorials
Police station foundation stone

Memorial: Police station foundation stone

Erected 9/4/1926, 100 years ago

EC1, Snow Hill, Police Station

This rather attractive building, designed as a Police Station by Sydney Perks, was erected in 1926. The foundation stone is to the right ...

5 creators
Francois Rabelais

Subject: Francois Rabelais

Died 9/4/1553, 473 years ago

Writer and physician. Born France, between 1483 and 1494, but probably November 1494. Became a monk and studied Latin and Greek, then left to study medicine. Died Paris.

Person, Literature, Medicine, Politics & Administration, Religion, France

1 memorial
Paul Robeson

Subject: Paul Robeson

Born 9/4/1898, 128 years ago

Singer, actor (also athlete and civil rights activist). Born Princeton, New Jersey to a former slave, who educated himself to become a theologian and who had great expectations of his son, expectat...

Person, Cinema, Music / songs, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Theatre, USA

1 memorial
Arild Rosenkrantz

Subject: Arild Rosenkrantz

Born 9/4/1870, 156 years ago

Danish painter/illustrator/stained glass artist, and, rarely, sculptor. "Although born in Denmark, Rosenkrantz grew up from the age of three in Scotland and settled in London at twenty eight. He ha...

Person, Art, Sculpture, Denmark, Scotland

1 memorial
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Subject: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Died 9/4/1882, 144 years ago

Poet & painter. Born 38 Charlotte Street, son of an Italian political refugee and Professor of Italian (with a bit of a thing about Dante). Brother to Christina. Their mother was brother to Dr ...

Person, Art, Poetry

4 memorials
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