Person (8,354 subjects)

Councillor A. W. Floodgate

Councillor A. W. Floodgate

Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1952.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Councillor C. F. F. Fleet

Councillor C. F. F. Fleet

Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1952.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Councillor W. R. Fenn

Councillor W. R. Fenn

Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1952.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Councillor Miss F. K. Dewsnap

Councillor Miss F. K. Dewsnap

Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1952.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
William Isaac Palmer

William Isaac Palmer

Manufacturer and philanthropist. Member of the Palmer family in the Huntley and Palmer biscuit company. He funded a free library in Reading. In 1876, he purchased Hoxton Hall in Hackney on behalf o...

Person, Commerce, Food & Drink, Philanthropy

1 memorial
Joseph Allen Baker

Joseph Allen Baker

Engineer and politician. Born at Maple Ridge Farm in Trenton, Ontario. He came to London in 1878 and with his brothers, established a company specialising in machinery for the confectionery and bak...

Person, Engineering, Politics & Administration, Canada

1 memorial
Olive Christian Malvery

Olive Christian Malvery

Born in Lahore in the Punjab to parents of European and Indian ancestry, Thomas Barber Malvery and Jessie Anderson. She came to London in 1900 and trained as a singer at The Royal College of Music....

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Music / songs, Philanthropy, India

1 memorial
Archibald Mackirdy

Archibald Mackirdy

US diplomat, for 27 years the United States Consul at Muscat, Persia. What little we can discover about him is as an adjunct to his wife Olive Christian Malvery. They had three children: Flora Mac...

Person, Politics & Administration, Scotland, USA

1 memorial
Harold Ridley

Harold Ridley

Ophthalmologist. Born Nicholas Harold Lloyd Ridley in Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire. Died in Salisbury, Wiltshire. In WW2, he treated Royal Air Force casualties with eye injuries. He noticed t...

Person, Medicine

1 memorial
Katherine Anne Egerton Warburton

Katherine Anne Egerton Warburton

Mother Superior of St Saviour's Priory at the time that the community moved from East Grinstead onto the Dunloe Street site, in 1866. When she died in 1923 a memorial fund was created to help compl...

Person, Religion, Social Welfare

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