Age: 35
Sex: male
Date: 15 Nov 1900
Place: River Thames, Mark Browns Wharf, London
The body of an unknown well-dressed man was found in the River Thames near Mark Brown's Wharf on Thursday 15 November 1900.
No money, keys, papers or jewellery was found on his body, which was well dressed.
He was described as:
His cause of death was given as drowning.
The jury at his inquest at Horselydown in Southwark, returned a verdict of found drowned, with no evidence to show how he came to be in the water.
Mark Brown's Wharf has since been demolished and the whole area redeveloped.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper - Sunday 18 November 1900
see National Library of Scotland
see Unsolved 1900