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Person    | Female  Born 7/9/1533  Died 24/3/1603

Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Elizabeth I

Daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Born Greenwich Palace. Succeeded her half-sister Queen Mary I. Reigned: 1553 - 1603. Never married, no children, so followed by James I.

Elizabeth I sponsored the slave trading voyages of John Hawkins.

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Queen Elizabeth I

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Elizabeth I statue - Harrow

Harrow School was founded in 1572 under a Royal Charter of Elizabeth I so thi...

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Forest Hill mural

{Panel 1:} A Brief Local History In medieval times this area was known as The...

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Friary House

Friary House Friary Park opened to the public on Saturday 7th May 1910 after ...

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Sarah Parker Remond

Sarah Parker Remond

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Admiral Arthur Phillip

Admiral Arthur Phillip

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Jak Beula Dodd

Jak Beula Dodd

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Robert Wedderburn

Robert Wedderburn

Wikipedia tells the sorry story of this man.  Born to a West African slave woman in Jamaica, his father, James Wedderburn, being a Scottish doctor and plantation owner, who had children by several ...

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Dr John Lettsom

Dr John Lettsom

Physician, philanthropist, abolitionist and entomologist. Born British Virgin Islands into a Quaker family. Aged 6 was sent to England to be educated. Came to London in 1766 to train at St Thomas' ...

Person, Medicine, Philanthropy, Race Issues, Virgin Islands

2 memorials