Elizabeth I's last Archbishop of Canterbury. The palace used as a summer retreat by the Archbishops of Canterbury was in Croydon and here in 1596 Whitgift founded an .
Memorable day of the year to die, shared with E. F. Benson. While Mary Hughes, J. E. Stanley Lewis and little Alfred E. Batt were all born on a leap day.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Whitgift
{Beneath the arms of Archbishop Whitgift:} The Hospital of the Holy Trinity f...
Civil engineer.  Son of Thomas and Mary Thornycroft.  Born Rome.  Studied and began work in Glasgow.  Then studied at the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at South Kensingt...
This patriotic committee of women, led by Lady Lavinia Spencer, ordered the Achilles statue unadorned. It was the men that insisted on the covering.
Investment banker. We cannot find any specific connection between Lord Rothschild and Laurence Olivier, upon whose statue his name as a benefactor appears. We asked our colleague, Andrew Behan, to...
Alice's husband, their sons David and Howard, daughter Helen, grandchildren and family.
Second child of 12. Parents John and Catherine Orbell of Brundon Mill, Ballingdon, Suffolk. The family emigrated to New Zealand in 1849 but Emily later returned alone to England. She died at Lower ...
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