Wesleyan minister and benefactor. Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1860. In 1869 he founded the Children's Home (now known as the charity Action for Children) to provide accommodation for destitute children. Died at his home, Clare Bank, Dollis Hill.
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Thomas Bowman Stephenson
Plaque unveiled by actress Shirley Anne Field (who spent part of her childhoo...
Laurence Evans was a theatrical agent with many famous clients including Laurence Olivier. Evans's fourth and last wife, Mary Campion, remained his wife for 42 years, until his death in 2002.
Created at the Grand Hotel in Birmingham as the National Association of Journalists. Described on the Stead memorials as "journalists of many lands".
Public relations executive. Flamboyant personality who was a friend of a wide variety of international personalities. Among his varied activities, he arranged the coverage of the coronation of Ssab...
Person, Benefactor, Politics & Administration, Cuba, Greece, USA
MP for Westminster for most of 1700 - 22. Created a baronet in 1713. Succeeded by his son John.
Poet and playwright. Born Camberwell. His works include ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’ and ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’. He fell in love with Elizabeth Barrett and married her secretly because of her ...
Philanthropist, feminist, educationist. Born Rose Mary Yeates in Horton, Buckinghamshire, to William Willson Yeates and his first wife Mary. When she was seven three of her baby sisters died in qui...
Queen Anne's Bounty Office operated from this site 1734 - 1947. Westminster’s Conservation Area Audit informs that this is actually the b...
Tower Hamlets have a "copy of the Constitution, showing that the society was founded 11 May 1970". Founders included: Israel Renson and Peggy Temple. We've found reference to this group being acti...
Serjeant John Copping was born in 1880 in Hacheston, Suffolk and his birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1880 in the Plomesgate, Suffolk, registration district. He was the only son and the t...
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