Person    | Male  Born 24/6/1912  Died 5/1/1994

Brian Johnston

Categories: Sport / Games, TV & Radio

"Johnners", For nearly fifty years he was the voice of cricket on BBC television and radio. Born Hertfordshire. Died London.

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Brian Johnston

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Brian Johnston tree

Tulip tree, Liriodendron tulipifera. Presented by The St John's Wood Society...

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Thomas Devas

Thomas Devas

Wimbledon landowner and important member of local society. In 1854, Devas and two friends, Holroyd and Oliphant, founded Wimbledon Cricket Club and Devas became its first president. Lived in Mount ...

Person, Benefactor, Property, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Bobby Moore

Bobby Moore

Footballer. Born Robert Frederick Chelsea Moore in Upney Hospital, Barking, Essex. Played for West Ham 1958-74. He had already played for the England youth and under-twenty-threes teams before bein...

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Lord Kinnaird

Lord Kinnaird

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Person, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Engineer Captain Charles Gerald Taylor, MVO.

Engineer Captain Charles Gerald Taylor, MVO.

A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1. A Wrexham paper has an article about Taylor: "Taylor was the first of 13 capped Wales players to lose their lives in the con...

Person, Armed Forces, Sport / Games

War dead, WW1
1 memorial

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Sir Hamo Thornycroft

Sir Hamo Thornycroft

Sculptor. Born William Hamo Thornycroft (but the William is normally dropped) at 39 Stanhope Street, Regent's Park.   Son of sculptors Thomas and Mary Thornycroft.  Studied at the Royal Academy Sch...

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8 memorials