Sportsman and profligate bon vivant, a life-style enabled through his vast inherited wealth. President of the National Sporting Club. Initiated the boxing prize, the Lonsdale Belt. Founder and first president of the Automobile Association, which adopted his favourite colour, yellow. WW1 he was a recruitment officer of both men and horses. After the war he became a senior steward of the Jockey Club and the first president of the International Horse Show at Olympia. Died at home, Stud House, near Leicester. The picture source provides an interesting profile of this larger than life character.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hugh Cecil Lowther, fifth Earl of Lonsdale
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National Sporting Club
This building was once known as the National Sporting Club, March 1891 - Octo...
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Admiral, Sir Robert Stopford, GCB, GCMG
Naval officer. Governor of of Greenwich Hospital, 1 May 1841 until his death.
1 memorial
Michael Noel Carman
A Labour party councillor of the London Borough of Hounslow 1992 and c.2003-6. He attended meetings but the only achievement we can find is the unveiling of the newly sited Brentford Monument. Acc...
1 memorial
Pearse Morrison
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
1 memorial
T. M. McGiff
On the committee of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919. Probably the same person as the Councillor T. M. McGiff, J.P. who was on the East Ham Corporation Public Health Commi...
1 memorial
Ram Mohun Roy
Indian scholar and reformer. Born Bengal. Worked to abolish the Hindu tradition of sati, where a widow joins her husband on the funeral pyre. For his last three years he was the ambassador to Bri...
1 memorial
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World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
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1 memorial
Hornsey Central Hospital - foundation stone, 1911
N8, Park Road, 151, Hornsey Central Health Centre
This is probably the 'opening' stone for the hospital which was begun in 1907.
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial