Member of the Chelsea Vestry Hall Building Committee in 1885. Member of the Metropolitan Board of Works 1885–89, after which he unsuccessfully sought election to the LCC, the successor body.
From London Wiki: ".. a solicitor and local politician .. son of a Lincolnshire solicitor, ... died at his home in Putney."
Claire Grey has researched the family tree.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Charles Mossop
This stone was laid by G. W. Osborn Esquire, acting-Chairman of the Vestry on...
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
Michael Bruce Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, financier and Conservative politician. Founded the Westminster Tree Trust.
Huskisson is famous for being the victim of the first fatal railway accident (not quite true), being run over by the train known as Stevenson's Rocket, at the opening ceremony of the Manchester to ...
Could "R.C.R.B." be the initials of a former name for the borough: "Royal Chelsea R. . . . Borough" for example? It certainly seems to indicate the organisation responsible for the plaque.
Tea merchant, benefactor and politician. Born Frederick John Horniman at Bridgwater, Somerset. He inherited his father's tea business, which by 1891 was described as the biggest tea firm in the wor...
Person, Benefactor, Commerce, Museums / Libraries, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, India, Sri Lanka
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