Electred Speaker of the House of Commons in 1728, a post he held for a record-setting 33 years. Born Chelsea. View from the Mirror credits Onslow with the invention of kerbstones.
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Arthur Onslow
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Arthur Onslow
Arthur Onslow (1691 - 1768), Speaker of the House of Commons from 1728 to 176...
St Margaret's new tower - 1736
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Camille Pissarro
French Impressionist painter. Born in the Danish West Indies (now the Virgin Islands) to a French father, a merchant, and Creole mother. With Danish nationality he avoided the Prussian invasion o...
Person, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Caribbean Islands, Denmark, France
4 memorials
Dadabhai Naoroji
The first Asian elected to the House of Commons, representing Central Finsbury for the Liberal Party from 1892 - 1895. This was 4 years after the Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, had said that black...
1 memorial
Henry James Bridges, first duke of Chandos
Born the son of a Herefordshire squire. His first wife's dowry included the Canons estate in Little Stanmore. He remodelled the house and in 1715 practically rebuilt the estate's church of St. Lawr...
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James Balfour
Deputy Chairman, Highways and Public Works Committee
1 memorial
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