Sir Hugh Willoughby
(d.1554)
navigator and Knight Bachelor (from 1544)
Commemorated on 1 plaque
This tablet is in memory of Sir Hugh Willoughby, Stephen Borough, William Borough, Sir Martin Frobisher and other navigators who in the latter half of the sixteenth century set sail from this reach of the River Thames near Ratcliff Cross to explore the northern seas
King Edward Memorial Park, Shadwell, Tower Hamlets, E1, London, United Kingdom where they set sail