Became a student at UCL in 1863. The picture source gives details of his assasination by a Korean nationalist. Picture source gives details of this.
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Hirobumi Ito
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Japanese students at UCL
The monument is made of fine-grained gabbro,polished to a black, mirror-like...
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Morley College
This college has its origins in the temperance Royal Victoria Coffee and Music Hall. In 1882, using the back-stage and the dressing rooms of the theatre, Emma Cons introduced Tuesday penny lectur...
John Harvard
A plaque inside the library provides the following: John Harvard was born in Southwark in 1607 and was baptized in St Saviours Church, the present Southwark Cathedral. He was the son of Robert H...
Caroline DeCamp Benn
Educationalist and writer. Born Cincinnati, Ohio. She came to Britain in 1948 to study at Oxford. There she met Tony Benn, who became her husband. An advocate of comprehensive education, she co-fou...
Person, Education, Literature, Politics & Administration, USA
Emanuel School
Originally founded as a school for poor children as part of the legacy of Lady Dacre. She wrote that its aims should be: 'for the bringing up of children in virtue and good and laudable arts so tha...
Amy Johnson Junior School
Former primary school, presumably named for Amy Johnson, the connection being the (sort of) proximity of Croydon Airport.
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