Person    | Male  Born 1891  Died 1940

Alfred Buxton

Alfred Buxton

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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Alfred Buxton

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Lily Pond

Buxton seems to have presented the pond the year before he became Chairman. T...

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W. Drummond

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...

Person, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Edmund William Richardson

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...

Person, Politics & Administration, Property, Religion

1 memorial
Noël Barclay

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).

Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Joseph James Redding

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 ...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Alfred Edward Reneson Coucher, OBE

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; ...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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Portuguese Embassy

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.

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
A. Bridgman

A. Bridgman

Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.

Person, Armed Forces, South Africa

War dead, Other war
1 memorial
British Library

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...

Building, Museums / Libraries

3 memorials