First Secretary of the Legation and an officer in the Revolution Army on Washington's staff. Married Abigail Adams, daughter to John Adams, second President of USA.
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Colonel William Stephens-Smith
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John Adams
In this house lived John Adams, first American Minister to Great Britain, May...
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Councillor Leonard Pearl
Leonard Pearl was born on 6 August 1908 in Mile End, London, one of at least nine children of David Pearl (1886-1919) and Rachel Pearl née Solomon (1868-1934). In the 1911 census he is shown as liv...
Chindit Special Force
Formed by Wingate and served in Burma and India in 1943 and 1944 in WW2. Composed mainly of British and Gurkha soldiers trained to operate deep behind Japanese lines using guerilla tactics. Disb...
W. H. Gosling
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Sapper Samuel James Charman
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Coburg Dwellings
E1, Hardinge Street, Coburg Dwellings
There are four 'Mercers' Maidens' on the block. Next door is the Convent of Sisters of Mercy, which also has a maiden.
Councillor W. Paddock
Chair, Housing Committee Parmiter Street, 1926. Councillor and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926. Municipal Dreams charts Paddock's downfall, concluding with: "December {1927} Paddock w...
Lloyds TSB Group
In 1765 John Taylor and Sampson Lloyd set up a private banking business in Birmingham. In 1810, the Reverend Henry Duncan of Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, set up a bank to help his poorest parishioners...
Cecil Stanley Gaskain
Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps. Killed in action aged 25. He is commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial, France.
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