Person    | Male  Born 22/3/1903  Died 11/7/1984

Admiral Sir Caspar John

Categories: Armed Forces

Born 18 Fitzroy Street. Pioneer in the fleet air arm. British first sea lord from 1960 -1963. Invested as Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath (G.C.B.) 1960. Died Hayle, Cornwall.

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Admiral Sir Caspar John

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Sir Jacob Epstein - Roper's Garden

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Sir Michael Beetham

Sir Michael Beetham

Marshal of the Royal Air Force, GCB, CBE, DFC, AFC, President of the Bomber Command Association.  Born London. He died, aged 92 years, on 24 October 2015 in Fakenham, Norfolk, according to his obi...

Person, Armed Forces

1 memorial
London Army Troops Royal Engineers

London Army Troops Royal Engineers

London unit which served in WW1.

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1 memorial
N. A. Horlocx

N. A. Horlocx

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1 memorial
Lance Serjeant Francis James Hocking, DCM

Lance Serjeant Francis James Hocking, DCM

Francis James Hocking was born on 8 October 1893 in Kentish Town, Middlesex (now Greater London), the elder of the two children of William Hocking (1867-1950) and Fanny Hocking née Lovejoy (1865-19...

Person, Armed Forces, France

War dead, WW1
2 memorials

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J. Roy Lancaster

J. Roy Lancaster

We have discovered two facts about a John Roy Lancaster: In 1911 he was working for Messrs. Horne & Co, Auctioneers and Surveyors of 85 Gresham Street, and of 35 Old Queen Street, involved in ...

Person, Politics & Administration, Property

1 memorial
Hornsey District Council

Hornsey District Council

1894 Hornsey became an urban district and in 1903 a municipal borough. In 1965 Hornsey's area was combined with Tottenham and Wood Green to form the present-day London Borough of Haringey.

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3 memorials
Sir Hans Sloane - WC1

Sir Hans Sloane - WC1

WC1, Bloomsbury Place, 4

London County Council Sir Hans Sloane, 1660 - 1753, physician, benefactor of the British Museum, lived here, 1695 - 1742.

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Round Hill House

Round Hill House

In living memory this was "very run down and some kind of Labour Party social club."  Elsewhere: "The Sydenham and Forest Hill Social Club ... was in Round Hill House from the 1930s until, I suppos...

Building, Property

2 memorials
Hodge the Cat

Hodge the Cat

EC4, Gough Square

Hodge is sitting on a leather-bound book ("A Dictionary of the English Language", what else?) with empty oyster shells at his paws, a ref...

3 subjects commemorated, 4 creators