Local Heroes
Those who are buried or have memorials here include:
- Dr Rees Ralph Llewellyn — Performed autopsy on Mary Ann Nichols, generally considered the first victim of Jack the Ripper
- Alexander Hurley — Singer and Comedian, second husband of Marie Lloyd
- John "White Hat" Willis — Original owner of the Cutty Sark
- Alfred Linnel — Trampled by a police horse during a demonstration in Trafalgar Square. Funeral was organised by Annie Besant and William Morris
- Will Crooks — Trade unionist and first Labour Mayor of Poplar
- Hannah Maria Purcell — Widow of William Purcell, carpenter of the HMS Bounty
- Some victims of the Bethnal Green Disaster
Read more about this topic: Tower Hamlets Cemetery
Famous quotes containing the words local and/or heroes:
“To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self- congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.”
—Clifford Geertz (b. 1926)
“The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banks; many a poet’s stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)