Born near the Kennington Oval but his family returned to Yorkshire when he was very young and he saw himself as a Yorkshireman. In 1908 he joined Waddingtons, a printing firm which developed a specialism in playing cards and in the '30s moved into jigsaws for which there was a craze. Was responsible for acquiring the rights to Monopoly.
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Victor Hugo Watson
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Co-op bank - Monoploy
Victor and Marjorie came to London from Leeds specifically to select names fo...
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Henry James Bridges, first duke of Chandos
Born the son of a Herefordshire squire. His first wife's dowry included the Canons estate in Little Stanmore. He remodelled the house and in 1715 practically rebuilt the estate's church of St. Lawr...
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Caroline Beatrix Bridgeman
Political activist and churchwoman. Née Parker. Supported her husband's political campaign but also worked in her own right, for example as a BBC governor. She was invested as a Dame Commander of t...
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Shiekh Khaled Jaber F. Al-Sabah
We think we have found the right man. If so, Wikipedia informs that he was imprisoned in Kuwait in 2021.
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Charles Palmer
A Commissioner for the 1892 Westminster Public Library.
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Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith
Formed as a civil parish in 1834 from the chapelry of Hammersmith that had existed in the ancient parish of Fulham, Middlesex since 1631. It was grouped with Fulham as the Fulham District from 1855...
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Captain Stuart Bertram Noakes
Stuart Bertram Noakes was born on 3 October 1875 in Beckenham, Kent, the seventh of the eight children of Wickham Noakes (1840-1923) and Kate Frances Noakes née Shorter (1843-1909). Our Picture So...
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Alexander Askew Scott
Private. Number S/40823 of the 5th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. He has no known grave, but is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Ypres.
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