Elizabethan seafarer. With Robert Bell he co-founded the St Mary Rotherhithe Free School, to educate the sons of local seafarers.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Peter Hill
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St Mary Rotherhithe Free School
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