Medical adviser to City Companies, with an interest in history, particularly John Wilkes. Cope promoted the erection of the statue.
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Thankfull Sturdee
Photographer and local historian. Born at 209 Evelyn Street, Deptford. He published 'Reminiscences of Old Deptford' in 1895. In 1911 he joined the Daily Mirror as a photographer, which was the firs...
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Sir Fabian Ware
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Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
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