Born St James's Palace, the second and favourite son of George III. Card gambler. Fought a duel on Wimbledon Common. Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, 1795 - 1809 and 1811 - 1827. Died, heavily in debt, at the duke of Rutland's house, Arlington Street.
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Frederick, Duke of York
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Duke of York's column
Bronze statue by Westmacott of "The Grand Old Duke of York" of nursery rhyme ...
Mary Anne Clarke
Mary Anne Clarke, 1776 - 1852, mistress of Prince Frederick, Duke of York, li...
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Admiral, Sir Charles Adam, KCB
Naval officer.  Governor of Greenwich Hospital, July 1847 until his death.  Died at Greenwich. Â
1 memorial
Guy Penrose Gibson
Wing Commander. Born Simla, India. Leader of the Dambusters Raid for which he was awarded the V.C. Died when his plane crashed in the Netherlands returning from a bombing raid in Germany. Played by...
1 memorial
Spitalfields engine-house
'Engine-house' was an early term for what we would now call a fire station. The engine was initially merely a hand-operated pump. This and some ladders might be housed in the local church, but as t...
3 memorials
Earl Beatty
Admiral. Born Nantwich. The youngest non-royal to become Rear Admiral since Nelson. Fought in WWI but more importantly, fearing defeat, kept the British Navy out of major sea battles and thus maint...
4 memorials
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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