Tory politician. Born at Knowsley Park, Lancashire. Overcame his early boisterous jollity and three times became Prime Minister, each time a coalition caretaker between the giants: Peel and Gladstone. Longest-serving party leader in modern British history (1846 - 68). Abolished slavery throughout the Empire. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. His grandfather founded the Derby race-meeting.
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Edward Geoffrey Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
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Derby statue
The relief panels, by Montford, on the four sides of the plinth show scenes f...
Great Exhibition and Prince Albert
Designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke. Inaugurated by...
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Edward Cox-Sinclair
Churchwarden, St Pancras Vestry in 1897. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Edward Cox was born in 1838 in St Pancras, London, a son of William James Cox and Mary Ann Cox. His father was a Coal...
1 memorial
Samuel Henry Dauncey
Vice-President of the Chelsea Temperance Society in 1908.
1 memorial
Hiroshi Kitamura
Japanese ambassador to the UK in 1993. Before that ambassador to Canada. We thank Shelton Chen for permission to use his picture of Kitamura.
1 memorial
Sir Mohammed Anwar Pervez, OBE
Trustee of The Memorial Gates Trust. Mohammed Anwar Pervez was born on 15 March 1935 in Rawalpindi, India (now Pakistan). Our Picture Source and his Wikipedia page give much information about the ...
1 memorial
Ministry of Public Building and Works
Formed during WWII to organise the requisitioning of property for wartime use. In 1962 it was renamed the Ministry of Public Building and Works, and acquired the extra responsibility of monitoring ...
1 memorial
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1 memorial
Saint John Houghton
One of the 18 Carthusian Martyrs. Prior of The London Charterhouse - a Carthusian monastery. Refused to accept Henry VIII as the head of the church of England. Martyred at Tyburn.
2 memorials
John Robert Godley
Founder of Canterbury, New Zealand. Born Dublin. Travelled extensively in Ireland and North America and so was asked to found a Church of England colony in New Zealand. After living there for two y...
2 memorials
Dove Bros. Ltd
Builders. Founded in Studd Street, Islington by William Spencer Dove (1793-1869). In 1852 his sons turned the business into a partnership. Builders of the pathology block of St Bartholomew's Hospit...
7 memorials
Wimbledon Common windmill
A Grade II* listed building. It was built by a carpenter, Charles March, and is a rare example of a 'hollow-post' mill. It continued in use until 1864, when the miller was evicted by the Lord of th...
1 memorial
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