Born Dublin, Ireland as Abraham Gottheimer. The King of Italy conferred the title of Baron Grant - for improvement schemes in Milan. He was also MP for Kidderminster. His financial dealings were never straight forwarded and he ended as a bankrupt.
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Albert Grant
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Albert Grant & Shakespeare
"There is no darkness but ignorance" is a quote from "Twelfth Night". The scu...
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Matchgirls' strike
A strike of the women and teenage girls working at the Bryant and May Factory. Annie Besant had published an article about the poor working conditions at the factory, 'White Slavery in London'. Thi...
5 memorials
Charing Cross Electricity Supply Company
This originated in 1882 from the power supply set up by Agostino and Stefano Gatti in the cellars of one of their restaurants. From Covent Garden: "... established in 1888 to provide lighting for ...
2 memorials
Royal Docks' workers and their families
During the 126 years of its working life the Royal Docks, the largest enclosed docks in the world, must have employed a huge number of people.
1 memorial
Henry Ford
American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that middle-clas...
Person, Commerce, Industry, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Transport
1 memorial
Reeves & Sons Ltd
Artists' colour manufacturer. Established by William Reeves (1739–1803). It has had a number of names, always including "Reeves" until ownership passed to Wilhelm Becker, through Colart Fine Art an...
1 memorial
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Peabody WW2 memorial
E1, John Fisher Street, Block L, Peabody Buildings
Both lists gives the age of each person and, for the visitors, their home address. Of the 64 adults, 42 are female, reflecting the fact t...
Civilian war dead | WW2
80 subjects commemorated
80 subjects commemorated
E. Evans Cronk
Andrew Behan has done some research on this man with the splendid name: His full name was Edwyn Evans Cronk. Born in 1846 in Sevenoaks, Kent, the son of Edwyn Evans Cronk and Isabella Cronk, née B...
1 memorial
The Three Cripples public house
Pub in Charles Dickens's "Oliver Twist".
1 memorial
Emily Rose Jenkins
Emily Rose Jenkins was born on 24 July 1980 in Hammersmith, the youngest of four children of Nicholas Jenkins and Sarah Jenkins née Newcomb. An elder brother, Barnaby Guy Jenkins, was born in 1978....
3 memorials
Percy Robert Leahey
Born St Pancras. Rifleman. Died of wounds, France and Flanders, 1/8/17. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has no record of Pte P. R. Leahey. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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