The Company was founded by architect and civil engineer Stephen Geary. who designed and planned Highgate Cemetery. It was later taken over by the United Cemetery Company.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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London Cemetery Company
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All Saints Cemetery Nunhead
All Saints Cemetery Nunhead, established by the London Cemetery Company, July...
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Peter the Great Company of St Petersburg
We can find nothing about this but guess it is some offshoot of the Russian embassy.
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William Fortnum
The records of the founders of Fortnum and Mason are not too clear. In 1707 a William Fortnum is said to have become a footman to Queen Anne and at about the same time to have founded a grocery bus...
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Ray A. Kroc
Businessman. Born in Oak Park, near Chicago. He joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world.
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scientific life assurance
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Thomas. J. Barratt
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