The prize for a rowing race for Thames watermen. Claimed as the oldest race in the world, it was founded by Thomas Doggett in 1715, to commemorate the anniversary of the accession of King George I...
Architect. Born 8 Bloomsbury Square. Co-founder of RIBA. Died at home, 21 Upper Bedford Place.
This open space was reduced in size in 2020-22 to allow the construction of a building on the Purchese Street/Brill Place corner. The re...
Architect with London County Council in 1905. Born Devonport, Plymouth.
He was a Member of the Royal Academy. The picture is a self-portrait. Much information about this sculptor can be found on his Wikipedia page, on the Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculptur...
Killed by the IRA Regent's Park bomb - not killed outright but was mortally wounded, dying 12 days later, aged 29 years.
Hotel chain. Founded in Memphis, Tennessee, by Kemmons Wilson. There are currently (2018) about 2,500 hotels worldwide.
She was born as Charlotte Anne Trevelyan on 1 August 1836 in Malden, Surrey, the eldest of the four children of The Reverend George Trevelyan (1802-1850) and Anne Trevelyan née Gosse (1814-1867). S...
Harold Knox King was born on 24 March 1907, the second child of William Henry King and Williamina King. His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1907 in the Rochdale registration district, La...
Born St Pancras. Rifleman. Died of wounds, France and Flanders, 1/8/17. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has no record of Pte P. R. Leahey. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man...
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