Formed as a trading company but went on to effectively rule India, on behalf of the British. Was involved in the slave trade.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
East India Company
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George Sparkes memorial
{Inscribed in the granite of the north, pavement, side of the plinth:} In aff...
Tea trade - St Katharine Docks
The Tea Trade at St Katharine Docks This plaque commemorates 335 years of th...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
East India Company
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Cornhill pump
We understand "the neighbouring fire officers" to mean the four fire assuranc...
Prince Lee Boo's tomb
A plaque inside St Mary's church also commemorates the prince. October 2014:...
Other Subjects
Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, OM, GBE, CVO, FRCA, FBA, FKC
Investment banker. We cannot find any specific connection between Lord Rothschild and Laurence Olivier, upon whose statue his name as a benefactor appears. We asked our colleague, Andrew Behan, to...
Henry Spicer (stationery)
Born Islington into the stationery family. Trustee of Islington Union Chapel. MP for Islington South. 1885-6. Henry Spicer was the eldest of the ten children of Henry S. J. Spicer (1801-1877) a...
Anthony Standerwick Heal
Son of Sir Ambrose Heal of the Heals furniture shop which was established in 1810. It moved from Rathbone Place to Tottenham Court Road in 1818. Anthony became a director in 1936 and the Chairman...
route to market via Hackney
The route to Bishopsgate can still be seen clearly on a current map, wending its way fairly directly via roads and footpaths from Mare Street Narrowway down to Virginia Road which, prior redevelopm...
Petticoat Lane Market
By 1608 this street was known as Peticote Lane for the second-hand clothes, etc. which were bought and sold here, right on the boundary with the City. In about 1830 the street name was changed to M...