Image source: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
In the January 2025 the creator wrote: "I shared a house with friends who regularly looked after a pampered dachshund called Geoffrey. He had even appeared in Vogue, so I am told. I’m not sure whether my decision to prematurely memorialise Geoffrey’s departure was out of disdain for his bourgeois lifestyle but his plot had been reserved within the Houndsditch pet cemetery."
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Geoffrey Barkington
The memorial is a bench, and is one of ten new ones in the City of London. Th...
Equestrian performer and circus proprietor. Born Newcastle under Lyme. Aged 17 he joined the 15th Light Dragoons where he developed an exceptional ability breaking and riding horses. Discharged as ...
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Founded as the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association it changed its name to include cattle troughs in 1867. London...
Wife of Philip; see there for more info. We cannot be certain that the image represents Patty.
The following text came from The RSPCA site: "In 1822, Richard Martin MP piloted the first anti-cruelty bill giving cattle, horses and sheep a degree of protection through parliament. ‘Humanity Dic...
Born Sussex. Founder of the Women’s Police Force, in WW1. Organizing Secretary of the animal campaigning organisation the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society. This opposed vivisection, camp...
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