John James Gentleman
Died 17/5/1915, 109 years ago
From the parish of St Thomas in Bethnal Green and killed in WW1, a private aged 30.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Stanley Arthur Heaps
Born 17/5/1880, 144 years ago
Architect. He designed a number of stations on the London Underground system, including the stations on the Edgware extension of the Northern Line, as well as train depots and bus and trolleybus ga...
4 memorials
Simon Hughes
Born 17/5/1951, 73 years ago
Politician. Born Simon Henry Ward Hughes. Elected as M.P. for Bermondsey in 1983.
1 memorial
1 memorial
Edward Jenner
Born 17/5/1749, 275 years ago
Spent most of his life in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, where he was born (in the vicarage) and died (at home,The Chantry). First doctor to study smallpox vaccine. Trained with John Hunter at St Georg...
4 memorials
Sir Norman Lockyer
Born 17/5/1836, 188 years ago
Astronomer and journal editor, born at Rugby. In 1865 Lockyer and his family moved to a house (no longer extant) near Swiss Cottage. Here, using a special spectroscope to examine the sun, he discov...
1 memorial
Katherine Low Settlement
Started 17/5/1924, 100 years ago
A charity founded as part of the settlement movement, in tribute to philanthropist Katherine Mackay Low who had died the year before. It supports after-school projects and a youth club for young pe...
1 memorial
Frank Matcham
Died 17/5/1920, 104 years ago
Theatre architect. Born Newton Abbot, Devon. Never qualified as an architect but designed at least 80 theatres and did some work on about the same number again. About 24 of his theatres survive rea...
9 memorials
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Dorothy Richardson
Born 17/5/1873, 151 years ago
Author and journalist. Born Abingdon and brought up in Putney. Her father was bankrupt and her mother had committed suicide by the time Dorothy was 22. Moved to Bloomsbury in 1896 and while workin...
1 memorial
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