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Roland David Amadeus Wynne

Son of Sir David Wynne. View from the Mirror tells us "The boy featured in the artwork was modelled upon ... (Roly for short) who 11 years old at the time and later went on to play bass in a rock ...

Person, Friend / family

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Lexicographer, grammarian and schoolteacher. Born at Tonbridge, Kent. He taught at Fettes College in Edinburgh and Sedbergh School in Yorkshire. Best remembered for 'A Dictionary of Modern English ...

Person, Literature

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William Burdett-Coutts

Born of British stock in America as William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett. On his father's death the family moved to England in 1852. On leaving university he became secretary to the massively wealthy Ba...

Person, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, USA

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Theodore Spicer Simson

Sculptor and medallist. On the page about his brother, Geoffrey, Wikipedia says "The eldest {sibling}, Theodore Spicer-Simson, became a world-famous medallion portrait artist, moving between France...

Person, Sculpture, France, USA

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Alderman Charles Fisher Yates

Mayor of Hackney 1933-34. The picture shows him (the mayor on the left) at the 1934 ceremony to bury a 'time capsule', a brass canister, below the foundation stone of the current Town Hall in Mare ...

Person, Politics & Administration