FAMOUS LAMBETH MEN

COADE, 1760. His celebrated Artificial Stone Works were at King's Arms Stairs, Narrow Wall, Lambeth. Two examples of Coade's work were quite recently in the triangle in front of St. Thomas's Hospital. They came from Arundel Castle, the seat of the Duke of Norfolk, whose ancestor, the Duke of Norfolk of Henry VIII.'s reign, lived in Lambeth Road, on the site of the present Distillery House. Coade's show rooms were at the comer of Belvedere Road.

BLAKE, WILLIAM, 1757 . Famous engraver and poet, who lived at 64, Hercules Road.

BACON, JOHN; FLAXMAN, JOHN Sculptors, who designed many of the works canted out by Coade. Flaxman lived at Stangate.

TRADESCANT, JOHN A celebrated gardener, who lived in South Lambeth Road about 1629-1662.He was a great traveller, and brought many South American plants into England, some of which are called "Tradescantia," -after him and his son.

ASHMOLE, ELIAS, 1617-1692. Received many curiosities from the Tradescants, which formed the nucleus of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. He wrote a history of the Order of the Garter. He was also "in cervices contrarotulator -an inspector of small beer!

RICH, THOMAS Gave by his will his dwelling-house, orchards, and gardens at West Ham, Essex, to the Mercers' Company, for the education of poor boys at Lambeth.

BLIGH, VICE-ADMIRAL, 1817. Commander of the Bounty, the crew of which mutinied when on a voyage to transplant bread fruit trees from Otaheite to the West Indies, His tomb is at the east end of the churchyard.

DOLLOND, JOHN, 1706-1761.John and his son Peter, the famous opticians of St. Paul's Churchyard, both were buried at Lambeth. 

LAWRENCE, RICHARD, 1671.Devised the field called the Dog House Field, known later as Lambeth Green, for the purpose of a free school in Lambeth. E. W.