Newspaper owner. He and his brother Alfred, later Lord Northcliffe, developed the London Daily Mail and Daily Mirror. Born Hampstead. During the lead up to WW2 he was a strong supporter of Oswald Moseley and the British Union of Fascists and of appeasement towards Hitler. In 1940 was asked by the government to go to America to help in the war effort but following a fall he died in a hospital in Bermuda.
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Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
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Coram's Fields
These grounds, the site of the Foundling Hospital, established in 1739 by Cap...
Harmsworth - IWM
In 1926 Harold Harmsworth, the first Viscount Rothermere, bought the grounds ...
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Gift from Lord Rothermere
This plaque was unveiled a second time, during the 75th anniversary celebrati...
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Sydney Powell
Former chairman of the Chiswick Parochial Charities.
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Vice-Admiral Sir Donald Gosling
Served in the Royal Navy in 1944-8. Entered business and was the founding member of a highly successful business partnership that took over National Car Parks, which became the largest car parking...
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Queen Victoria's Kensington subjects
"... her loyal Kensington subjects" which probably means some of the wealthy people who lived in Kensington.
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Edward Harvist Trust
Charity that awards grants to organisations in the London boroughs of Camden, Brent, Barnet, Harrow and Westminster, to assist with one-off projects that will benefit residents in the boroughs. We ...
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E17, Vestry Road, Vestry House Museum
185cm high x 160cm wide x 160cm deep and over 5 tons.
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Madame Tussaud - Marylebone Road
NW1, Marylebone Road, Madame Tussauds
Westminster Walking posted about a "Souvenir of Madame Tussaud's" from the 1930s. And Londonist has some weird photos of the effects of t...
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