Peer and politician. Born George Cholmondeley. He was elected to parliament in the seats of East Looe, and later in Windsor. Under his father-in-law, Sir Robert Walpole, he served as Lord of the Admiralty, Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He created a home for foundlings in London, in the hope of alleviating the problem of child abandonment.
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3rd Earl of Cholmondeley
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Notable surgeon during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Strong advocate of the antiseptic surgical methods proposed by Joseph Lister and he served in conflicts such as the Boer War. An...
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Henry Edmund Knight was born in St Marylebone. 1882-3 the Lord Mayor of London. Sources: Wikitree, Grogono.
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A Bengali Muslim, he joined the East India Company aged 11, where he served as a solder and fought a few times. Resigned in 1782 and two years later with his friend from the army Captain Godfrey Ev...
A Metropolitan borough of the County of London. It was amalgamated with the Metropolitan Boroughs of St Pancras and Holborn to form the London Borough of Camden.
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