Person    | Male  Born 25/6/1796  Died 1/12/1857

Charles Hindley

Charles Hindley

Member of Parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire from 1835 until his death. When he fell ill, his doctor, Robert Bentley Todd, prescribed 'Six pints of brandy to be drunk in 72 hours' as a cure. He did not survive.

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Charles Hindley

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Westminster Chapel

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J. W. Sanders, FRCS

J. W. Sanders, FRCS

Corps Surgeon in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1887-1890.

Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration

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W. Chambers-Leete

W. Chambers-Leete

Town Clerk of the Royal Borough of Kensington, 1904 - 1916, at least. Kensington in the Great War by G. I. S. Inglis tells us that the Chambers Leetes lost their only son Captain W. J. H. Leete of...

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Edward Cox-Sinclair

Edward Cox-Sinclair

Churchwarden, St Pancras Vestry in 1897. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Edward Cox was born in 1838 in St Pancras, London, a son of William James Cox and Mary Ann Cox. His father was a Coal...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth

Writer, broadcaster and former M.P. Born Gyles Daubeney Brandreth in Germany where his father was serving as a legal officer with the Allied Control Commission. Famous for his over the top knitwear...

Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, TV & Radio, Germany

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary and the ruler of the Soviet Union 1927-53. He served as both General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–52) and Cha...

Person, Politics & Administration, Russia

1 memorial

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Mary Watts

Mary Watts

Born as Mary Seton Fraser Tytler in India but brought up in Scotland. 1886 married G. F. Watts. Co-founded the Compton Potters' Arts Guild and the Arts & Crafts Guild in Compton, Surrey. There ...

Person, Craft / Design, India, Scotland

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Liberal Party

Liberal Party

Founded at a meeting in Almack's / Willis's Rooms, when 280 Whig, Liberal, former Peelite and radical MPs met to agree on a strategy to remove Lord Derby's Conservative government. The Guardian re...

Group, Politics & Administration

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cnihtengild

cnihtengild

A guild of knights, whose role may have been to defend London from attack from the east.  The book "London, 800-1216: The Shaping of a City  By Christopher Nugent Lawrence" has a go at explaining w...

Group, Armed Forces

1 memorial
World War 1

World War 1

We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

402 memorials
Mr. J. Welbelove

Mr. J. Welbelove

Member of Kingston Spiritualist Church in 1927.

Person, Community / Clubs, Religion

1 memorial