Petersham, London
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Petersham is a village in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames on the east of the bend in the River Thames south of Richmond, which it shares with neighbouring Ham. It provides the foreground of
Cattle grazing in Petersham Meadows
Grave of the explorer George Vancouver
Watchman's hut and lock-up, erected in 1787 and now Grade II listed
St Peter's Parish Church
George Vancouver
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Captain George Vancouver was a Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for leading the Vancouver Expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including
Petersham, London
…3rd Duke of Argyll and Earl of Islay, was born at Ham House in 1682. He went on to found the Royal Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh in 1727. The explorer George Vancouver retired to Petersham, where he wrote A Voyage Of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World. He lived in a house in River Lane that is…
Possible portrait of Vancouver
The Discovery ran aground in early August 1792 on hidden rocks in Queen Charlotte Strait in the Pacific Ocean, near Fife Sound.
In The Caneing in Conduit Street (1796), James Gillray caricatured Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford's street-corner assault on Vancouver in Conduit Street, London.