Subject: Ananda Coomaraswamy
Born 22/8/1877, 148 years ago
A Tamil philosopher and art historian. Born in Ceylon of a Tamil father and an English mother, brought up in England. Studied at University College, London.
1 memorial
Subject: Lance Serjeant Arthur Edward Cutting
Died 22/8/1918, 107 years ago
Arthur Edward Cutting was born in 1899 in Kensal Rise, Willesden, Middlesex (now Greater London), one of the eight children of William James Cutting (1865-1929) and Eleanor Harriet Cutting née West...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Subject: Harry John Dowthwaite
Died 22/8/1918, 107 years ago
Sub-Conductor. Number 2563 of the Royal Ordnance Corps. Buried in plot IV.D.30 of Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension. His brother Alfred is also commemorated on the memorial.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Subject: John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland
Died 22/8/1553, 472 years ago
Led the government of the under-age King Edward VI 1550-3, and on his death unsuccessfully attempted to install Lady Jane Grey and her husband (his son) Lord Guilford Dudley on the throne. Execute...
1 memorial
Subject: John Edwards
Died 22/8/2009, 16 years ago
abstract painter and sculptor, and teacher. Born in London and grew up in Hornsey. Head of painting and sculpture at St Martin's School of Art, London, in the 1980s. In the last decade of his life,...
1 memorial
Subject: Charles Gulliver Fryer
Died 22/8/1869, 156 years ago
Vicar of St John's Church, Eltham. Son of William Fryer of Wimborne. Lived at Well Hall and late in his life at Sussex Square, Brighton.
1 memorial
Memorial: George Daniels
Erected 22/8/2014, 11 years ago
SE20, Thornsett Road, 21
George Daniels CBE, watchmaker, 1926 - 2011, lived & worked here. The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers The British Horological Insti...
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
Subject: Bartholomew Gosnold
Died 22/8/1607, 418 years ago
Explorer. Born in Grundisburgh, Suffolk. He led the first recorded European expedition to Cape Cod, and is considered to be the prime mover in the colonisation of Virginia. He captained the 'Godspe...
1 memorial
Subject: Warren Hastings
Died 22/8/1818, 207 years ago
Born Oxfordshire. Joined the British East India Company as a clerk and rose to become the first Governor-General of Bengal 1773 - 85. Accused of corruption and the judicial killing of Maharaja Nand...
1 memorial
Subject: Dr Frederick N. Hicks
Born 22/8/1920, 105 years ago
Long term resident of Stanmore. From HADAS "Dr Frederick Hicks is a retired GP and Vice-Chairman of the Stanmore & Harrow Historical Society." From MyLondon: "... Dr Hicks has attended St John...
1 memorial
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