Company, based in Portland Place, founded by Lord Paul, specialising predominantly in the manufacture of steel, automotive and general engineering products.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Caparo Group
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Indira Gandhi and Lord Paul
This tree commemorates the visit of Mrs Indira Gandhi on 23 March 1982, spons...
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Terry Smith
Chairman of the Sir Keith Park Memorial Campaign. Spent 3 years and millions of dollars to get the Keith Park statue erected. In 2011 this earned him, a Brit, the title normally given to a NZ cit...
1 memorial
Henry Ford
American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that middle-clas...
Person, Commerce, Industry, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Transport
1 memorial
Frederick Horniman
Tea merchant, benefactor and politician. Born Frederick John Horniman at Bridgwater, Somerset. He inherited his father's tea business, which by 1891 was described as the biggest tea firm in the wor...
Person, Benefactor, Commerce, Museums / Libraries, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, India, Sri Lanka
3 memorials
Sir John Lubbock
Banker, politician and scientific writer. Born at 29 Eaton Place. He went into his father's banking business at the age of 14 and became a partner in 1856. Entered parliament in 1870, and succeeded...
1 memorial
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Frank Pick
NW11, Wildwood Road, 15
Note the use of London Underground’s own typeface, Johnston Sans.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
John Hunter plaque
W1, Golden Square, 31
Actually in Upper St John Street. The plaques can just be seen in the site photograph, at the far end of the white building.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
James Clarke Lawrence
MP for Lambeth from 1865, and Lord Mayor 1868-9. In 1887 he and his brother Edwin funded a new building in Kensington for the Unitarians, see Essex Street Chapel. His nephew was Frederick Pethick-L...
1 memorial
Alice Hogg
Alice Anna Graham was born on 9 October 1846 in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, the eldest of the eight children of William Graham (1817-1885) and Jane Catherine Graham née Lowndes (1820-1899). Her fat...
1 memorial
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