There are a considerable number of these that are of some note but the following two are perhaps of greater general interest than the rest.
There is a carving by Louis Francois Roubillac (about 1702/5 to 1762) commemorating Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751). Henry was a considerable statesman, writer and orator. As a Tory with Harley in the administration serving Queen Anne (1665-1714), his negotiation of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession, was considered a substantial triumph. He is said to have been less successful than he might otherwise have been because he was such an egotist and a rake. He had to spend some time in exile in France because he had plotted against the enthronement of George I (1660-1727). In France he was for a time secretary to James Stewart (1688-1766), the Old Pretender. Henry married Mary Clara des Champs de Marcilly, a niece of the extraordinary Madame de Maintenon (1635-1719). His political writings had considerable influence. He advocated a monarchy in the mould of the 20th century to be above faction and to represent the nation.
Edward Wynter who died in 1686 is commemorated as a definitely more physical, not to say macho, kind of a guy.

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The Buildings of England - London 2: South

When Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), posing as Mr Booth, was living in Chelsea in the last few years of his life he enjoyed being taken on the river, usually attended by Mrs Booth. They were often in the care of the boatman Charles Greaves whose sons Henry and Walter became particularly associated with the American artist James Abbott McNeil Whistler (1834-1903). The river trips were frequently extended by a walk on the opposite bank to the Battersea parish church here. Thea Holme in her book 'Chelsea' notes that the chair in which he used to sit there to admire the view of the sunsets was still in place.

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