Person    | Female  Born 17/1/1820  Died 28/5/1849

Anne Brontë

Categories: Literature

Novelist and poet. Born Yorkshire. Youngest member of the Bonte literary family. Novels: 'Agnes Grey', 'Tenant of Wildfell Hall'. See Charlotte Brontë for more.

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Anne Brontë

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CI - 8 - Books

This carving depicts the two Brontë sisters meeting Thackeray, but rather fai...

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John Buchan

John Buchan

Author and Governor-General of Canada. Born at Perth, Scotland. He entered the diplomatic service, becoming private secretary to the High Commissioner for Southern Africa. Created Baron Tweedsmuir ...

Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Canada, Scotland, South Africa

1 memorial
Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Peake

Artist and writer. Mervyn Laurence Peake was born on 9 July 1911 in Kuling, Dehua, Fujian, China, the younger child of Ernest Cromwell Peake (1874-1950) and Amanda Elizabeth Ann Peake née Powell (...

Person, Art, Emergency Services, Literature, Seriously Famous, Channel Islands, China/Hong Kong

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Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

Literary critic and writer.  Born Coventry and was brought up in South Africa and Ireland as well as England.  Educated, with George Orwell and Cecil Beaton, at a school in Eastbourne.  Edited Hori...

Person, Literature, Ireland, South Africa

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Anne Louise Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein

Anne Louise Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein

Born in Paris. Adam Thorpe has written "Conscious of her physical plainness but 'irresistibly seductive' in conversation, her salons were the focal point for pre-revolutionary reform, and eventual...

Person, Literature, France

2 memorials
The Time Machine

The Time Machine

Novella by H.G. Wells. The unnamed hero of the book travels on the eponymous machine to the year 802,701. Initially he finds the world has become an idyllic place populated by a childlike race call...

Fiction, Literature

1 memorial

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George Richmond

George Richmond

W1, York Street, 20

London County Council George Richmond, 1809 - 1896, painter, lived here, 1843 - 1896.

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Sun Fire Office

Sun Fire Office

Founded in London, now the oldest existing insurance company in the world.

Group, Commerce

1 memorial
William Henry Barlow

William Henry Barlow

Engineer. Born Charlton. Best known for the St Pancras railway shed. Died at home, High Combe, 145 Charlton Road, SE7, not far from his place of birth.

Person, Engineering

2 memorials
Councillor H. Adams

Councillor H. Adams

Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, and of the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926.

Person, Politics & Administration

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Lord Wandsworth

Lord Wandsworth

Banker, Member of Parliament and philanthropist. Born Sydney James Stern in London. He worked in his father's law firm, before becoming Member of Parliament for Stowmarket. Became Baron Wandsworth ...

Person, Benefactor, Commerce, Politics & Administration

2 memorials