Ealing Council
Governing body of the London Borough of Ealing, Formed in 1965 by the merging of the Municipal Boroughs of Acton, Ealing and Southall.
Governing body of the London Borough of Ealing, Formed in 1965 by the merging of the Municipal Boroughs of Acton, Ealing and Southall.
Designed by Charles Jones, and built by Hugh Knight. It replaced a smaller town hall, that had also been designed by Jones. They are both in the same Gothic revival style; this one a whale compared...
Formed as a trading company but went on to effectively rule India, on behalf of the British. Was involved in the slave trade.
Group, Commerce, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Indian Sub-continent
First Director of the National Gallery. President of the Royal Academy. First President of the Royal Photographic Society. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. Born in Plymouth, son ...
Member of the Commissioners of the 1890 Bermondsey Library. c.1894-5 a J. Eastty living in Bermondsey was elected to serve on the committee of the Baptist Fund, and in 1887 the British Bee Journal...
Barrister, local politician and Mayor of Hornsey 1908-9. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and published a number of books on historical subjects. In the 1890s the College of Arms, Lond...
Member of the Commissioners of the 1890 Bermondsey Library.
Medical Board in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1889-1900. Honorary Associate in the Order of St John. The Brigade's first Honorary Surgeon.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Born Durham, Succeeded Churchill as Prime Minister, 1955 - 57. The Suez crisis is considered the low point of a less than admirable term. Died at home at Alvediston, Wiltshire.
Member of the Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall. Describing the Bethnal Green councillors at this time, British History gives: "Some later called themselves Liberals, am...