Annabel Rose
One of a list of 26 researchers involved in researching Hester Leggatt's background.
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Hester Leggatt
Hester May Murray Leggatt was a vital contributor to MI5's 1943 Operation Mincemeat - see there for the full story. Born in India, her family brought her back to the UK before WW1. She attended T...
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Benjamin Cotton
Benjamin Cotton was born on 10 February 1794, in Leyton, Essex (now Greater London), the ninth of the ten children of Captain Joseph Cotton (1745-1825) and Sarah Cotton née Harrison (1751-1818). On...
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Joseph Cotton
Joseph Cotton FRS was a mariner and merchant, a director of the East India Company, Chairman of the East India Dock Company and deputy-master of Trinity House. Born St Albans. Briefly in the Roya...
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Agnes Cotton
Social reformer and philanthropist. Youngest daughter of William Cotton, remained unmarried. Opened a Home for Friendless Girls in 1865, at Forest Glade, in Whipp's Cross Road. Then 1876, she boug...
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William Cotton
William Cotton FRS was an inventor, merchant, philanthropist, and governor of the Bank of England 1842-5. He helped build St John's Church Leytonstone in 1833, and 75 other churches in London. He ...
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Helen Peele
Wife of John Brandram Peele and mother of Charles John Peele, who founded almshouses in Bermondsey, in memory of her. The family lived at Childown Hall in Chertsey - see CJP for more info on the h...
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Charles John Peele
Founder of the Peele Almshouses, built in memory of his mother, Helen Peele. From A Rotherhithe Blog: "Charles Peele was a partner in Brandram's at the time. According to the London Gazette of Ap...
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Oliver Heaviside
Born in Camden Town. Aged 12 the family could no longer afford to send him to school so he continued studying on his own. Thus he was largely self-taught, no secondary education or university. In ...
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Sir John Anderson
Engineer. Born at 19 Barron Street, Woodside, Aberdeen. On moving to London, he was seconded to the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. Here he was responsible for many innovations, and for mechanising and au...
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