Former ballerina. Born Anya Linden. She studied at the Royal Ballet School under Sir Frederick Ashton and others. She and her husband Sir John Sainsbury, established the Linbury Trust, which offers support to charitable and artistic groups.
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Anya Sainsbury
{Beneath the crest of the Royal Ballet School:} The Bridge of Aspiration, the...
Writer and actress. Born as Winifred Beech in a Suffolk rectory. Died France. 1914 she married John Fortescue (1859-1933, librarian, archivist at Windsor Castle and British Army historian), despit...
Newspaper proprietor, The News of the World in particular. Chairman of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, in 1926 when he, together with George Eastman, and Sir Albert Levy, funded the cons...
Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania. Born in the Liberty of the Tower. After studying law, he spent several years in Ireland managing his father's estates. During this time he converted to Qu...
Died following an act of terrorism on 22 March 2017 on Westminster Bridge. Leslie Rhodes, from Clapham, had been visiting St Thomas' Hospital when he was hit by the car driven by the terrorist. The...
Designed houses in Kensington, Clapham and Highbury. Seems not much is known about him.
Member of Housing Committee, Diss Street 1922. Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, and of the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926.
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