Born into a wealthy merchant family and admitted as a child to the Guild of Fishmongers. His will provided for almshouses to be built in the parish of Christchurch, Blackfrars, for poor, single men. These almshouses are now modernised and occupied by couples.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Charles Hopton
Commemorated ati
Hopton's Almshouses - left pier
IanVisits's post about these almshouses in March 2011 pictured another plaque...
Hopton's Almshouses - right pier
This plaque, spotted by our colleague Alan Patient, was erected in 2012, some...
Other Subjects
Michael Thomas Whitehall
Benefactor of Catford. Andrew Behan has provide his research findings: Michael Thomas Whitehall was born on 18 October 1816 in Southend, Lewisham, Kent, the elder son and the fourth of the seven c...
1 memorial
Sir James Carmichael, K.B.E.
Owned the building firm James Carmichael Ltd in Trinity Road Wandsworth Common. Director-General of Housing in England and Wales. He was a generous benefactor and in his lifetime gifted £40k to th...
1 memorial
Wheeler family
Benefactors active in 2013. Â We'd guess that they were then living in the house on which they erected the plaque. British History Online, quoting the parish book, says that a Mr Wheeler lived in t...
1 memorial
Oeuvre Nationale le Souvenir Belge
A Belgian non-profit organisation founded in 1968 whose name loosely translates as "Work of Belgian Commemoration".  We could find very little information: only this medal and the plaque on the mem...
1 memorial
citizens and senat of Berlin
Berlin has a mayor and an executive making up the Senat, similar to the Greater London Authority.
1 memorial
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