Chamberlain of London from 1776 to 1779. The holder of the post of Chamberlain was originally responsible for the collection and distribution of revenues within the City of London. The birth date is approximate.
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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Benjamin Hopkins
The language on the panels becomes increasingly convoluted and some of the ab...
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
Revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism. Possibly the founder of anarchist theory in general. Born Russia. Well-travelled: Germany, France, Japan, London, Sweden, Sw...
Master of the Innholders' Company in 1950.
Local politician. Born Bradford. Graduated from Ruskin College, Oxford. Served in the navy during WW2 and later worked in the newspaper industry for more than 20 years. First elected to Enfield Co...
Indian scholar and reformer. Born Bengal. Worked to abolish the Hindu tradition of sati, where a widow joins her husband on the funeral pyre. For his last three years he was the ambassador to Bri...
The vicars mentioned on the plaques would both have belonged to All Saints, the church immediately to the north. Disappointingly we have ...
Goerge Robert Gissing. Novelist, best known for ‘New Grub Street’ about the hack writers who were concentrated in Grub Street, EC2. In 1830 Grub Street was renamed Milton Street; in WW2 it was badl...
Formed under the London Government Act 1963, by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Mitcham, the Municipal Borough of Wimbledon and the Merton and Morden Urban District, all formerly within Surrey.
This building, the Royal School of Mines, (1906, Aston Webb). has 34 memorials: a foundation stone, 2 busts and 30 scientists' surnames p...
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