Initiated the Evening Standard's appeal to replace London's lost trees. For 42 years McGill was a columnist with the Evening Standard and was co-creator, with the illustrator Dominic Poelsma, of the Clive and Augusta strip cartoons. He was named Descriptive Writer of the Year 1968, and appointed MBE 1990.
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Angus McGill
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Angus McGill
This plaque was installed in 2017, on the 30th anniversary of the Great Storm...
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Peggy Temple
Founder member of the Victoria Park Society.
1 memorial
World Wildlife Fund
Now known as the World Wide Fund for Nature. It is an international non-governmental organisation, working in wilderness preservation, and the reduction of human intervention on the environment. J...
Group, Animals, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration
2 memorials
Sir C. Wentworth Dilke (Snr)
Art patron. Horticultural editor. Born London. 1st baronet. Known as Wentworth to distinguish him from his father of the same name. Pity this care in naming did not extend to the next generation. A...
Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration, Russia
1 memorial
Vita Sackville-West
Writer and gardener. Born Victoria Mary Sackville-West at Knole, near Sevenoaks, Kent, the only child of Lionel Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville. She started writing at an early age, having many...
1 memorial
Thomas Fairchild
Text transcribed of the information board (which itself credits the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography): Thomas Fairchild was born in May 1667. In 1690 he established himself as a nurseryman ...
1 memorial
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Church of the Assumption & St Gregory
The last remaining 'embassy chapel' as explained at Caroline's Miscellany and at Ian Visits. Built in the early 18th century. Following damage in the Gordon Riots this was rebuilt in 1790.
1 memorial
London Borough of Hounslow
Formed under the London Government Act of 1963, by the merger of the former Brentford and Chiswick Urban District, Feltham Urban District and the Heston and Isleworth Urban District.
5 memorials
LSHTM - Lewis
WC1, Gower Street, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
This listed building was designed by Vernor Rees in 1926, one of the first steel-framed buildings ever erected. The balconies are decorat...
1 subject commemorated
1 memorial
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