Born Buckinghamshire into a poor family. Became teacher then headmaster. Alderman in 1937 and in 1946 MP for Bow and Bromley and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Charles William Key
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Poplar Town Hall - foundation
Listed Grade II The text includes: "The councillors' entrance has a cantile...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
1 memorial
Sir Edward Muir
President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1971 - 1973. He died suddenly while in the post. Also, strangely, was Master of the Worshipful Company of Fanmakers, 1958.
1 memorial
Kenneth Alfred Ballard, MC
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
1 memorial
Charity Commissioners
The Charity Commission for England and Wales is the non-ministerial government department that regulates registered charities in England and Wales and maintains the Central Register of Charities.
1 memorial
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
W8, Edwardes Square, 11
This was the London home of G. Lowes Dickinson, author and humanist, He was born 1862 and died 1932.
1 subject commemorated
John Barry
Created the captions on the Hitchcock murals. We think this means that he wrote them, rather than physically made them, and that he was chosen for his film knowledge. But the existence of 'John B...
1 memorial
George Sparkes
London Parks and Gardens Trust provides: In the 1850s No 16 High Street {Bromley} ... was bought by George Sparkes ...{who} renamed the house Neelgherries after the hills of Nilgiris (an alternativ...
1 memorial
General Gordon's birth place - lost plaque, blue
SE18, Woolwich Common, 29
This photo comes from Mapio. These two blue plaques are on display at Gordon's School, near Woking, on the external wall of one of the bu...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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