South African financier, b. London as Barnett Isaacs. Competitor of Cecil Rhodes in the South African diamond world. Entered politics in the Cape. His son Woolf became a successful racing driver and chairman of Bentley. Barnett died by suicide. This external site provides more information and Find a Grave, our picture source has a blunt assessment of his character.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Barnett I. Barnato
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Middlesex Hospital and Barnato and Joel
We had not heard of the Barnato-Joel family before coming across this plaque....
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River Lea Watermills
The picture source website is a report on the Archaeology in the Lea Valley prepared in advance of the 2012 Olympics.
Chelsea china
Manufactured in a house at the north end of Lawrence Street SW3, 1745-1784. The factory was founded by two Frenchmen, Charles Gouyn, a goldsmith and Nicholas Sprimont, a silversmith. It was the fir...
Bronze Age Ltd
Casting foundry based at the Limehouse Basin. It provides a service to artists who wish to cast their original sculptures in bronze or aluminium. Owned and run by Mark Kennedy.
Thames Tunnel Mill
London's docks were badly damaged by bombing during WW2, but managed a resurgence during the 1950s. The 1970s however, saw the introduction of container ships which were too large to be handled in ...
J. Arthur Rank
Flour miller and film-maker. Born Joseph Arthur Rank at Chestnut Villas, Holderness Road, Drypool, Kingston upon Hull. He worked for many years in his (very wealthy) father's flour milling business...
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G. L. Banks
Secretary of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919.
Eliza Eleanor Tarbox
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 64. Buried in grave 4 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
C. H. James
Architect. Born Gloucester. War & Son provides the rest of this page: Charles Holloway James was born in Gloucestershire in 1893 and worked as a draughtsman for local architect, Walter Brian W...
Civilian deaths in London caused by enemy action
This page brings together all the memorials that we have for civilians killed in London by acts of war, including terrorism. It is related to a very interesting campaign for a Citizens Memorial "to...
J. W. Pocock
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
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