Born Ipswich. Trained as a barrister. In WW1 he served in the Royal Army Medical Corp and rose to be captain. He was awarded a Military Cross on 3 June 1918. 1929 became a Member of the Corporation of the City of London. Conservative MP for Blackburn 1931-45. Knighted in 1944. Chairman of the Chairman of the City of London Schools Committee in 1936.
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Captain George Sampson Elliston
We thank James Parkes for spotting this stone, photographing it and bringing ...
Men and women of Middle East Air Force Command who lost their lives in the Suez Canal Zone, 1945 -1956, and especially for those who have no known grave.
Frederick Lewis Perrett was born on 1 April 1889 at 54 Regency Street, Westminster, London, the fifth of the eight children of Lewis John Perrett (1854-1925) and Eliza Matilda Perrett née Jones (18...
Denise Madeleine Bloch was born on 21 January 1916 in Paris, France to a Jewish family. Her father was Jacques Henri Bloch and her mother was Suzanne Levi-Strauss. She had three brothers. Her Wiki...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
The rocket landed on the Woolworth's building at 12.44pm It was a sunny Saturday and many people were out shopping. There were rumours that Woolworth's were selling saucepans (which were in short s...
Either lost his life, or gave distinguished service to the London Fire Brigade, and was buried in the Highgate Cemetery plot between 1884 and 1955.
Walthamstow was a local government district 1894 -1965 when it combined with Chingford and Leyton to form Waltham Forest.
Researching this address unexpectedly turned up two terrific items. Firstly, the 1932 Wakefield High School Magazine. In the list of members (old girls, presumably) we find: "Hemingway, Maisie, N...
Award-winning rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. Born as Niomi Arleen McLean-Daley and raised in Archway.
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