Comprising The Almshouse Charity (managing an almshouse in Chiswick) and The Lying-In Charity (offering an annual grant to benefit pregnant women in the London Borough of Hounslow).
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Chiswick Parochial Charities
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Hopkin Morris cottages
A small plaque to the right of the lower plaque reads 'Renovated 1974 London ...
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William Lambe
1569-1570 Master of the Clothworkers' Company. Three wives but childless which allowed for his philanthropy. 1564-1577 he financed the rebuilding of the Holborn Conduit which, until its demolition ...
Person, Food & Drink, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration
3 memorials
Joshua Watson
Philanthropist, educationalist and prominent lay churchman. Born Tower Hill. Went into his father's wine merchant business. 1811 he took the house at Clapton. A leading member of the "Hackney P...
1 memorial
Ragged School Museum
In 1877 a ragged school was set up by Dr Barnardo at 46-50 Copperfield Road, E3, in a group of three canal-side warehouses. The school closed in 1908 when there were enough schools in the area run...
1 memorial
Frederic David Mocatta
Tycoon and philantropist. Born London into a Jewish family who came to England from Spain in the 1650s. Married but childless. Worked in the family gold-dealing business until 1874 when he gave ...
1 memorial
William Burdett-Coutts
Born of British stock in America as William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett. On his father's death the family moved to England in 1852. In 'The Story of Holly Lodge' by Margaret Downing, March 2009, we le...
1 memorial