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Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon

Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon

Born Wiltshire. His daughter, Anne married the Duke of York, who eventually became James II. His son was Henry. Close to Charles II even before the Restoration he was appointed his Chancellor of t...

Person, Politics & Administration, France

2 memorials
Mary Anne Clarke

Mary Anne Clarke

Mistress of Prince Frederick, Duke of York. Born in Ball and Pin Alley, White's Alley, Chancery Lane as Mary Anne Thompson, she married Clarke, a stonemason who became bankrupt. She 'went bad' but ...

Person, Friend / family, France

2 memorials
Elisabeth Nicole Marie Charlotte Clement-Avoyne

Elisabeth Nicole Marie Charlotte Clement-Avoyne

Elisabeth Nicole Marie Charlotte Avoyne was born on 25 May 1944 in Notre-Dame-d'Estrées, Calvados, Normandy, France. Known as 'Babette', our Picture Source informs that she had joined Pan American...

Person, Aviation, Tragedy, France, Scotland

1 memorial
John Clench

John Clench

John George Clench was born on 23 March 1976 in Clerkenwell. He was fifth of the ten children of Thomas James Clench (1847-1895) and Eliza Clench née Hollis (1847-1928). His father was a machine pr...

Person, France

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Second Lieutenant Harold Norton Clifton

Second Lieutenant Harold Norton Clifton

Harold Norton Clifton was born on 7 May 1894 at 32 Ashley Gardens, Westminster, the second of the three children of William Edward Clifton (1859-1921) and Isabel Clifton née Nelson (1869-1940). He ...

Person, Armed Forces, France

War dead, WW1
2 memorials
Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough

Poet.  Born Liverpool but brought up (aged 2 - 9) in South Carolina, America, his father being a cotton merchant.  Educated at Rugby and Oxford.  Travelled to France to participate in the 1848 revo...

Person, Poetry, France, Italy, USA

1 memorial
Order of Cluny

Order of Cluny

A Benedictine order of monks, founded in the Burgundian area of France, by Duke William of Aquitaine. It was unusual in that, unlike other monastic communities it was granted perpetual freedom from...

Group, Religion, France

1 memorial
Richard Cobden

Richard Cobden

Political economist and Liberal MP. Born near Midhurst, Sussex, into a large and very poor family. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. Spoke repeatedly to Parliament against war with...

Person, Industry, Politics & Administration, France

5 memorials
William Robert Colton

William Robert Colton

Sculptor. Born Paris but came to England early and made his home in London. The only other public work in London that we know of is the 1897 Mermaid Fountain or Little Nell, in Hyde Park, just nor...

Person, Sculpture, France

1 memorial
Herbert Columbine, VC

Herbert Columbine, VC

Born Herbert George Columbine. He was a private in the 9th Squadron machine gun corps. On the 22nd March 1918 at Hervilly Wood, France he took over command of a Vickers gun and fired it at the enem...

Person, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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