Admiral. Born Staffordshire. 1740-4 circumnavigated the globe. Captured a Spanish galleon loaded with gold and silver (aren't they all?) and returned home a wealthy man. Died at home, Moor Park, Hertfordshire. Description of his voyage, from the cat angle, at .
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Admiral George Anson
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Thomas Rainsborough
Grew up in Wapping. Â A spokesman for the Levellers and a colonel in the New Model Army. Â Killed by a Royalist raiding party during the siege of Pontefract. Â The Levellers arranged for his funeral, ...
1 memorial
Bernard Joseph Brown, CBE, JP
Member of the Joint Co-ordinating Committee in 1982 for opening Tower Bridge to the public. Â Mayor of Hillingdon 1969-1970. Bernard Joseph Brown was born on 27 February 1916, his birth being regis...
Person, Armed Forces, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
H. W. Day
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Bill Faust (Billy)
Died with Adam Meere in a fire in Bethnal Green, which started in the basement of a children's clothes shop, Sohan and Sons, and spread to the flat above. Operating out of Whitechapel Fire Station,...
3 memorials
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