From the : "Founded with the aim of providing men to fight in the King's ships as Britain faced war with most of Europe, The Marine Society was the world's first charity dedicated to seafarers."  Founded by Jonas Hanway (1712-1786), a trader, who feared that he would lose his men to the navy, so he set up the Society to recruit and train more sailors.  Jonas also a governor of the Foundling Hospital and the first Londoner to carry an umbrella.  See for more on this eccentric man.
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Marine Society
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Marine Society
Site of the King's Arms Tavern where the first meeting of the Marine Society ...
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Lieutenant John Henry Stephen Dimmer, VC
John (Jack) John Henry Stephen Dimmer was born at 37 Gloster Street, South Lambeth. Following action at Klein Zillebeke, Belgium, Dimmer learned of his VC reading a British newspaper whilst recover...
War dead, WW1
2 memorials
Private Thomas Henry George Reid
Thomas Henry George Reid was born late in 1890, the youngest of the three children of Thomas Harrison Reid (1860-1945) and Eliza Jane Reid, née Burrows (1860-1894), his birth being registered in th...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Major Cecil Brown
A member of the Imperial Camel Corps for which he provided the statue in Embankment Gardens.
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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