Sarah Parker Remond
African American abolitionist, lecturer, suffragist, polyglot, UCL & Bedford College graduate. Sarah Parker Remond was an American lecturer, activist and abolitionist campaigner. Born a free ...
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Osborne Reynolds
Professor of engineering. FRS. Born Belfast. Aged 25 he was appointed professor of engineering (one of the first to be appointed to such a post in the UK) in Owens College, Manchester. He remai...
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The John Roan Foundation
Charity. John Roan who died in 1644, was Yeoman of Harriers to King Charles I. He bequeathed his estate to educate the town-born children of Greenwich. It owns several properties in Greenwich, the ...
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Charles Robertson
Worked in the civil service, 1902 - 1925, in the Egyptian Ministry of Education. At the 1931 London County Council election, Robertson was elected for the Labour Party in Islington East. He lost th...
Person, Education, Politics & Administration, Egypt, Scotland
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The Round School
It was the principal elementary school in Wimbledon Village, run as a charity school for poor children. Amongst its trustees was William Wilberforce who lived locally. Lord Nelson also donated mone...
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Royal Army Medical College
Built on the site of Millbank Prison.
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Royal College of Physicians
Founded by Thomas Linacre in 1518 with a charter granted by Henry VIII. Their first home was Linacre's own house in Knightrider Street. Their second home, at Amen Corner, Paternoster Row, was des...
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Royal Holloway College
Founded as a women-only college by Thomas Holloway in 1879 on the Mount Lee Estate in Egham. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner called the original college building (now listed Grade 1) "the most ebullient Victo...
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