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 construction of the Eastman Dental Clinic. In 1920 became the first divorced peer to enter the Lords.
Born 2 Stanhope Place, Loughborough Road Brixton Heath. Died at home, Walton Heath House, Walton on the Hill, Banstead, Surrey.
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Baron George Allardice Riddell
A cherub stands atop the fountain clutching a dolphin which appears capable o...
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Baron George Allardice Riddell
Courtier. Born at Boughton, Northamptonshire. In 1709 he became Master of the Great Wardrobe and officiated at the coronation of King George I in 1714. Wife was Mary Churchill. A benevolent person...
He succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1738. MP. Birth date approximate. Died Millbank.
Courtier to King Charles II and a benefactor of the University of Cambridge. He was an investor in, and Assistant (what we'd call Director) of, the Royal African Company, an English mercantile comp...
Ambassador. Born Moscow into an old aristocratic family in the Crimea. The third count Woronzow. Russian Ambassador to the UK, 1784 – 1806 (his brother Alexander, having preceded him in that role, ...
The pleasure boat The Marchioness collided with another vessel and sank with the loss of 51 lives. In nearby Southwark Cathedral there is a Marchioness memorial stone. The following comes from a B...
Lord Mayor of London from 1879 to 1880. Alderman on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894. His son, George, was Lord Mayor from 1908 to 1909 and was the 1st Baronet Truscott of Oakleigh.
We wonder if erecting this plaque was part of the deal for De La Rue getting Tonga's currency printing business.
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