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FIFTY NOTABLE PERSONALITIES & Monuments

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Bonomi
Chelsea
Pensioners
Fremantle
Pankhurst
Snow
Tauber

ANTHONY of Sourozh (1914-2003) Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church (45)
BANCROFT, Sir Squire (1841-1926) Actor-manager (2)
BANTING, William (1797-1878) Undertaker & dieting pioneer (19)
BONOMI, Joseph (1796-1878) Archaeologist & Egyptologist (22)
BORROW, George (1803-1881) Author & linguist (12)
BRIGADE OF GUARDS MONUMENT (20)
CAFE, General William (1826-1906) VC won in Indian Mutiny (30)
CASSATI, Marchesa Luisa (1881-1957) Art collector & extravagant dresser (40)
CHELSEA PENSIONERS' MONUMENT (6)
COLE, Sir Henry (1808-1897) Instigator of Great Exhibition & V & A Museum (15)
COOMBES, Robert (1808-1860) Champion sculler on Thames & Tyne (49)
COURTOY, Hannah (1784-1849) Mysterious society woman with fabulous wealth (23)
CUNARD, Sir Samuel (1787-1865) Shipping owner (31)
FARMER, Corporal Joseph (1854-1930) VC won in First South African War (13)
FORTESCUE-BRICKDALE, Eleanor (1872-1945) Third generation Pre-Raphaelite painter (39)
FOWLER, Sir John (1817-1898) Engineer of Metropolitan Railway & Forth Bridge (47)
FREMANTLE, Admiral Sir Charles (1800-1869) Founder of Fremantle in Australia (37)
GLOVER, Brian (1934-1997) Actor (17)
GODWIN, George (1815-1888) Architect & editor of The Builder (24)
GOLDING, Dr. Benjamin (1793-1863) Founder of Charing Cross Hospital (4)
GUNTER, Robert (1783-1852) Market gardener & local housing developer (34)
HARRIS, Sir Augustus (1825-1873) Actor-manager (38)
HENTY, George (1832-1902) Novelist & journalist (29)
JACKSON, John (1769-1845) Pugilist (28)
LAMBERT, Constant (1905-1951) Composer & conductor (50)
LAMBERT, Percy (1881-1913) Motor racing record maker (46)
LEVIN, Bernard (1928-2004) Writer & critic (16)
LEYLAND, Frederick (1831-1892) Ship owner& art patron (25)
LOW, Major Archibald (1888-1956) Aviation designer (1)
MACCHETTA, Blanche Roosevelt (1858-1896) American singer & writer (44)
MAUDE, General Sir Frederick (1821-1907) VC won in Crimean War (14)
McDONALD, James (1843-1915) Co-founder of Standard Oil (10)
MELLON, Alfred (l820-1867) Violinist & musical director (21)
MONCKTON, Lionel (1862-1924) Musical comedy composer (42)
MURCHISON, Sir Roderick (1792-1871) Geologist (33)
NOBLE, Mathew (1818-1876) Sculptor (32)
NUTKINS : Family name used for a Beatrix Potter character (36)
PALLISER, Sir William (1830-1882) Gunnery inventor & Barons Court developer (11)
PANKHURST, Emmeline (1852-1928) Suffragette leader (5)
PRATTEN, Catherina (1821-1895) Composer & guitarist (41)
PRINSEP, Valentine (1838-1904) Painter (26)
RAWLINSON, Sir Robert (1819-1898) Civil & sanitary engineer (7)
SAWA, Archbishop (1898-1951) Polish Orthodox churchman (9)
SNOW, Dr. John (1813-1858) Pioneer anaesthetist & cholera cause discoverer (3)
SOTHEBY, Samuel Leigh (1805-1868) Auctioneer (48)
TAUBER, Richard (1891-1948) Singer & operetta composer (8)
THOMAS, Walter Brandon (1850-1914) Actor, playwright & author of Charley's Aunt (43)
WARNEFORD, Sub. Lt. Reginald (1891-1915) VC winner & Zeppelin destroyer (35)
WEBSTER, Benjamin (1797-1882) Actor-manager & founder of RADA (27)

WISDEN, John (1826-1884) Champion cricketer & founder of Wisden's Almanack (18)

Guards' monument
Courtoy monument
Glover monument
Sotheby monument
Wisden monument
Brigade of Guards
Courtoy
Glover
Maude
Sotheby
Wisden

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