Subject: Earl of Kilmarnock
Died 18/8/1746, 279 years ago
Jacobite. Taken prisoner at the Battle of Culloden. Tried and beheaded on the Tower Hill scaffold.
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Subject: J. E. Stanley Lewis
Died 18/8/1970, 55 years ago
Born in Ottawa. Ottawa's longest serving mayor, 1936 to 1948. The photo shows him in 1946 the year of the planting of the tree that he gifted but we don't think he was at the event.
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Subject: Maria Anna of Spain
Born 18/8/1606, 419 years ago
Infanta of Spain, daughter of King Phillip III. She was considered as a possible wife for Charles, Prince of Wales, (The future King Charles I) which became known as the 'Spanish Match'. In 1623 Ch...
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Subject: Andrew Marvell
Died 18/8/1678, 347 years ago
Poet, wit, and satirist. Born at Winestead-in-Holderness, Yorkshire. Childless, contemporary sources hint that he was impotent due to having lost a testicle to VD. For about twenty years M.P. for H...
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Subject: National Fire Service / NFS
Started 18/8/1941, 84 years ago
Nationwide fire service created during WW2 from the amalgamation of the wartime Auxiliary Fire Service and the many local authority fire brigades. After the war it was split into brigades again un...
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Subject: Old Baptist Union
Started 18/8/1880, 145 years ago
A group of evangelical Baptist churches in the UK. Founded by Rev. H. A. Squire (with others) who became the founding President. The Old Baptist Union's executive body is called the "Council of Man...
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Subject: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Born 18/8/1900, 125 years ago
Born as Swarup Nehru into a prominent Indian political family (brother - Jawaharlal Nehru; niece - Indira Gandhi; grand-nephew - Rajiv Gandhi) She was herself a powerful diplomat and politician. 8...
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Subject: F. Cayley Robinson
Born 18/8/1862, 163 years ago
Frederick Arthur Cayley Robinson. Painter and book illustrator. Born Brentford, Middlesex. In 1914 moved with his wife and daughter into 1 Lansdowne House. That same year he began 10 years as a...
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Subject: Willie Rushton
Born 18/8/1937, 88 years ago
Satirical cartoonist, comedian and author. Born 3 Wilbraham Place, Chelsea. Worked on 'That was the week that was', 'Not only...But also', 'I'm sorry I haven't a clue' (where he revelled in the arc...
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