Charity founded by Richard Carr-Gomm, providing support to deprived people.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Charity founded by Richard Carr-Gomm, providing support to deprived people.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Carr-Gomm Society
Created by Lord Trenchard to provide direct welfare assistance to those of the extended Royal Air Force family in need or distress.
Ship-repairer and philanthropist. Born in Glasgow. After serving his apprenticeship in shipbuilding, he came to London to ply his trade. He was deacon of St Mark's Presbyterian Church in Greenwich,...
Chairman of the paper manufacturers Spicers, Ltd, and Associated Companies. 1933 Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. Owned a country estate, 'Holmwood', Sawston, Cambridge (but we can fi...
Shipbuilder and philanthropist. Founder of a shipyard in Blackwall, which was subsequently taken over by his three sons, Frederick, Henry and Richard. George endowed several schools in Poplar.
Born New York City into an extremely wealthy family. Lived in Rome in his mid-thirties where he developed a life-long taste for the arts. On his father’s death in 1890 he built the luxury Waldorf...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Philanthropy, Property, Italy, USA
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