Claire Hitier-Abadie
36-year-old French national, lived in Marylebone with her husband and 2 children. Riding a Boris bike, killed by a Crossrail tipper truck turning left on top of her at the Victoria Street / Bresse...
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A. V. Hill
Physiologist. Born Archibald Vivian Hill in Bristol. One of the founders of the disciplines of biophysics and operations research he shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his el...
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Ruth Rendell
Crime writer. Born Ruth Barbara Grasemann in South Woodford. She started work as a feature writer for the Chigwell Times, but was forced to resign after filing a story about a local sports club din...
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Stephen Cox
Sculptor. His style mixes Italian, Egyptian and Indian traditions. He also works in wood, and has exhibited at the Royal Academy.
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L. A. Malempre
From Mapping Sculpture we learn that Louis Auguste Malempré was born Belgium in about 1820. He had various addresses in London from 1854 on. Died London, probably at19 Lower Philimore Place, a subs...
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Sir William Heerlein Lindley
Civil engineer. Born at 50 Ferdinand Strasse, Hamburg. Worked with his father William Lindley on a number of engineering projects, including the Warsaw waterworks and the sewerage system in Prague,...
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William Lindley
Civil engineer. Born at 1 Surrey Square, Old Kent Road. In his youth, he worked with Marc Isambard Brunel and Francis Giles. In Germany he became involved in the development of railways. With his s...
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Gertrude Fogg
Fictional aunt of the equally fictitious Phileas Fogg who is the central character in the novel 'Around the World in Eighty Days' by Jules Verne.
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Marion Dorn
Textile designer. Born on Christmas day, probably at Menlo Park, near San Francisco. She moved to Paris where she met and subsequently married the artist Edward McKnight Kauffer. At the outbreak of...
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Edward McKnight Kauffer
Artist and designer. Born in Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana, USA. As an art student, he was sponsored by Professor Joseph McKnight, from whom he adopted his middle name. He moved to Paris whe...
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