Sharif Al-Hussein Ben Ali
HRH Sharif Al-Hussein Ben Ali (1919-1998) [PLOT 119]
Member of the Iraqi royal family which was ousted in 1958 when nationalists shot King Faisal II and his family.
Cosmo Edmund Duff-Gordon
Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon 5th Baronet DL (22nd July 1862-20th April 1931) [Plot 25] was a prominent Scottish landowner and sportsman, best known for the controversy surrounding his escape from the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
Educated at Eton, Sir Cosmo lived a life of comfort and privilege. He was a first-class fencer and represented Britain at the 1908 Olympic Games. Sir Cosmo and his wife were travelling on the Titanic under the assumed name of Mr and Mrs Morgan. They along with his wife’s secretary, occupied lifeboat No.1. This had 12 people in it, although the boat was designed for 40.
His wife Lucy Christiana Sutherland, Lady Duff Gordon (1863-1935) was a famous fashion designer.
This extract is found in historian John M. Clarke's book London's Necropolis, 2018 (2nd edn.)
Sarah Eleanor Smith
Sarah Eleanor Smith (1861-1931) [PLOT 32]
Widow of Captain Edward J Smith, Captain of the Titanic, who was lost at sea as the liner sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912. Mrs Smith was gravely injured when she was knocked down by a taxi in London and died at St Mary Abbot’s Hospital, Kensington on 28th April 1931.
This extract is found in historian John M. Clarke's book London's Necropolis, 2018 (2nd edn.)
Alicia Frances Jane Lloyd Still
Matron of St Thomas’ Hospital.
(1869-1944) ST THOMAS HOSPITAL [PLOT 46]
Dame Alicia Frances Jane Lloyd Still, DBE, RRC Order of St. John was a British nurse, teacher, and hospital matron.
Her papers helped to found the Florence Nightingale Museum, opened in 1989, which was based on the life of Florence Nightingale. It is on the historical site of the first purpose-built nurse training institution, the Nightingale Training School for Nurses, which closed in 1996, at St Thomas' Hospital.
Isabella Caroline Somerset
Advocate of temperance and women’s welfare.
Lady Henry Somerset (1852-1921) [PLOT 46]
Born Lady Isabella Caroline Somers-Cocks; 3rd August 1851 was a British philanthropist, temperance leader and campaigner for women's rights. As president of the British Women's Temperance Association she spoke at the first World's Woman's Christian Temperance Association convention in Boston in 1891.
