Born India. Being in the air force he married Agatha while on leave, on Christmas Eve, 1914. He rose to colonel. After the war he got a job in the City and then one which took him and his family around the world. In December 1926 his declaration of love for another woman prompted Agatha's much publicised 10 day disappearance. They divorced in 1928. The picture shows the couple during the war.
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Archie Christie
Commemorated ati
Agatha Christie book
Unveiled on the 60th anniversary of The Mousetrap, this bronze, 2.5 m high 'b...
Other Subjects
Guy Penrose Gibson
Wing Commander. Born Simla, India. Leader of the Dambusters Raid for which he was awarded the V.C. Died when his plane crashed in the Netherlands returning from a bombing raid in Germany. Played by...
1 memorial
Old boys of Westminster School
Those who died serving in the Crimean War and Indian Rebellion.
1 memorial
Jim Mathieson
Sculptor. Born Calcutta India. 1947 his family moved to Scotland. Mathieson is on the left of the photo.
1 memorial
V. K. Krishna Menon
Politician who campaigned for India's independence from Britain. Lived in London for 24 years. Member of the Theosophical Society. Born Karela, India. Studied at the LSE. He worked for the publishe...
Person, Nationalism, Paranormal, Politics & Administration, India
2 memorials
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
Historian, essayist, poet. Born Leicestershire but brought up in the Clapham home. Spent four years (1834 - 8) as an administrator in India, during which he showed little interest in Indian cultu...
4 memorials
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Leslie Howard
SE19, Farquhar Road, 45
Leslie Howard, 1893 - 1943, actor and film director, lived here. English Heritage
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
38 Brunswick Square
This 4-storey Georgian house was built by Charles Mayor under the supervision of James Burton in 1804. The only other notable former resident was John Thomas (1818-32), Governor of the Foundling Ho...
1 memorial
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Dame Marie Tempest
Actress and singer. Born Mary Susan Etherington in London. She studied music in Paris and at the Royal Academy of Music, making her stage debut in 1885 in the operetta Boccaccio at the Comedy Theat...
1 memorial
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