Son of Robert Giles Marten. Admitted to Inner Temple in 1852 and became a QC, County Court Judge and knighted in 1896. MP for Cambridge. Was Treasurer of the Temple in 1893. Died St Leonard's on Sea.
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Alfred George Marten
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Hare Court rebuilt - east
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Hare Court rebuilt - west
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transportation to Australia
One of the (many) supposed origins of the word 'pom' for an Englishman, is that convicts were branded with the initials of 'Prisoner of Millbank'.
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Watch House in Hampstead
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1 memorial
Granville Sharp
Anti-slavery campaigner. Born Durham. 1757 became Clerk in the Ordnance Office. Became involved with the anti-slavery campaign by a personal involvement with an injured slave, Jonathan Strong, a...
1 memorial
Sir Thomas Plumer
Judge and politician. Called to the bar in 1778, he acted for the defence in a number of important cases. In Parliament, he sat in the pocket borough of Downton in Wiltshire, and was promoted to At...
1 memorial
Luis L. Ramirez
Ramirez's divorced wife's lover was murdered in Texas in 1998. Ramirez was indicted for solicitation of capital murder. In 1999 he was sentenced to death and executed in 2005.
Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA
1 memorial
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Valentine Poole Houses - Southgate
N14, The Green, 28
23 - 31 The Green, built 1780 by Valentine Poole Trust for the poor of Barnet. Architect: Michael Searles (1750 - 1813). Saved from dem...
4 subjects commemorated
Michael Bakunin
Revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism. Possibly the founder of anarchist theory in general. Born Russia. Well-travelled: Germany, France, Japan, London, Sweden, Sw...
1 memorial
Wilfred Lawson
WC2, Victoria Embankment Gardens
This statue original had figures representing Temperance, Peace, Fortitude and Charity but they were stolen in 1979.
2 subjects commemorated,
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Wilson Smithett & Co Ltd
Wholesalers of coffee, tea, cocoa and spices, located at 202 Blackfriars Road (2021). The Daily Mail has an interesting 2004 article about tea tasting at the Wilson, Smithett tea brokers office, S...
1 memorial
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