Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
Younger son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. Not a handsome man, the first monarch he served called him "my pygmy" and the second "my little beagle". A statesman noted for his direction of th...
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Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre
Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre was an English courtier. Husband to Anne - more information there. (He was born before 25 June 1539). Source: Wikipedia.
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William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester
William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester KG PC, styled as Lord St John, 1539-50 and Earl of Wiltshire, 1550-51, was an English Lord High Treasurer, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and statesman. ...
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Christine M. Cohen
Chair of the Hampstead Heath Management Committee in 1998.
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Albert William Ashmore
Salvationist and Christmas carol concert founder. Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has discovered that the year of his death on the memorial plaque attached to the Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, Croydon ...
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David Blakely
David Blakely was a racing driver engaged to one woman and also in a relationship with Ruth Ellis. Ellis shot Blakely dead outside the Magdala pub, in front of witnesses. More information at Motor...
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Ruth Ellis
Ruth Ellis, née Neilson, was a British nightclub hostess who was convicted of murder and became the last woman to be hanged in the UK following the fatal shooting of her lover, David Blakely, on 10...
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J. W.
"J. W." does not give us much to go on. Possibly John Waggett who set up a water fountain in Notting Hill?
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Robert Sadler
Silk printer, pugilist, publican and property developer, active in the mid-1800s. Son of a prominent Summerstown family. He ran a local beer house, The Sir Jeffrey Dunstan at 47 Summerstown, and in...
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Sir James Carmichael, K.B.E.
Owned the building firm James Carmichael Ltd in Trinity Road Wandsworth Common. Director-General of Housing in England and Wales. He was a generous benefactor and in his lifetime gifted £40k to th...
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