Famous People
Admiral Arthur Phillip was the commander of the First Fleet and the founder and first governor of Australia. Baptised in All Hallows Bread Street in 1738, he entered the Royal Navy in 1755 and died on 31 August 1814. He is remembered on Australia Day. A bust of Phillip can be found in the gardens at Watling Street.
Bread Street was the birthplace of the poets John Donne and John Milton.
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“Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)