Fought to free Corsica from France. Born Corsica. Exiled in London 1770 - 1780 and again 1795 until his death in London. At the Burdett-Coutts memorial, where his name is given as "Paschalis de Paoli of Corsica" you can read why his bones were dug up, and then in 1889, returned to Corsica and reburied there.
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General Pasquale Paoli
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Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial
This elaborate piece of high Victoriana was designed by George Highton of Bri...
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Michael Collins
Irish nationalist and politician. Born Woodfield, County Cork. He moved to London in 1906 with his sister, spending over nine years there. An activist in the Sinn Féin movement, he was imprisoned i...
1 memorial
Boudicca / Boadicea / Boudica
Queen of the Iceni.  When the Romans arrived in AD 43 her husband, Prasutagus, was ruling the Iceni, the people in East Anglia.  The Romans allowed him to continue his rule but when he died their a...
2 memorials
Cato Street Conspiracy
A plot to murder the Tory Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool, and the whole cabinet, as they had dinner at a house on Grosvenor Square. The dinner had been announced in a newspaper but this was probabl...
1 memorial
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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk[a] was a Czechoslovak statesman, political activist and philosopher who served as the first president of Czechoslovakia 1918-35. He is regarded as the founding father of Czec...
Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Czechoslovakia
1 memorial
Joe Slovo
South African freedom fighter. Born Lithuania. His family emigrated to South Africa when he was 8. Married First in 1949. died at home in Johannesburg, as a member of Nelson Mandela's government.
1 memorial
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