Statesman. Born Lancashire. Previously known as the Marquess of Hartington, or in the gossip columns as Harty-Tarty. Close friend of Edward VII. Had a serious affair with Skittles in 1859 - 1863 and then for 30 years with Louise Montagu, Duchess of Manchester. They eventually married a respectable 2 years after the death of her husband the Duke. Minister of War and partly responsible for sending General Gordon to Khartoum and the consequences of the siege. Died at the Hotel Metropol in Cannes, on his way back from wintering in Egypt.
There is another statue of the Duke in the Carpet Gardens at Eastbourne where he was mayor 1897 - 1898.
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8th Duke of Devonshire, Spencer Compton
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8th Duke of Devonshire
The carving on the plinth is attractive with a snake knotted into a figure of...
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Edmund William Richardson
Company Secretary of the Planet Building Society. c.1871 he demolished the old Friary House and built the present house in which he lived until his death. British History Online details some prop...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Anthony Boden
Churchwarden in St Pancras Vestry in the late 1800s.
1 memorial
Camden Council
The Town Hall in Euston Road once housed these interesting murals by Cecil Osborne.
28 memorials
Stanley Bean Atkinson
Barrister-at-law, Stepney Borough Councillor, guardian of the poor, member of Metropolitan Asylums Board. On top of his legal qualifications he also studied medicine at St Bartholomew's. Died aged ...
1 memorial
Previously viewed
first public building in the world to be lit throughout by electricity
See Savoy Theatre.
1 memorial
Captain Matthew Flinders
W1, Fitzroy Street, 52
London County Council Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N., 1774 - 1814, explorer and navigator, lived here.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Chiltern Railways
A train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains. It operates commuter/regional services from its Central London terminus at London Marylebone along the M40 corridor, as well as long distance se...
1 memorial
Lockerbie bench - 05 - Engstrom
TW9, Kew Gardens
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
2 subjects commemorated
Thomas More - N4
N4, Henry Road, 9, St Thomas More Catholic Church
There are sculpted lions couchant on a number of entrance piers in this area, one just to the right, outside our photo, and a pair at eac...
1 subject commemorated
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