Chairman of the London County Council, 1916 - 1917. Grandson of the first baronet by his son Thomas Fowell Buxton (1822–1908).
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W. Drummond
Administrator of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862. Drummond is the only name on the Putney Pest House plaque given 'Esqr.' rather than 'Mr' or 'Dr'. It clearly is meant to indicate something b...
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...
Noël Barclay
Central President of the Mothers' Union in 1925. We found reference to a publication probably authored by her: Barclay, E. Noel, Marriage and Divorce (1936).
Joseph James Redding
Deputy Chairman of the Police Committee of the Corporation of London in 1926. Speel tells us that in St Botolph Aldgate there is a panel monument to "Joseph James Redding, d.1932". Seems likely to ...
Alfred Edward Reneson Coucher, OBE
Alderman Mayor of St Marylebone, November 1947 - May 1949, for 10 years a London County Councillor. Founder President of the St Marylebone Society. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research; ...
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Portuguese Embassy
W1, Golden Square, 23-4
Behind these houses is a church which was first built as a Catholic chapel to serve this Embassy.
A. Bridgman
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
British Library
16 years between the laying of the foundation stone in 1982 and the opening in 1998. The Independent explains the delay: "The reason it has taken so long to build ... has relatively little to do w...
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