Staff Sergeant Roberts

Staff Sergeant Roberts

Royal Engineer killed by an exploding bomb while assisting in the attempt to disarm it. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: Staff Serjeant Charles Roberts was born on 25...

Person, Armed Forces, Tragedy, Scotland

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Annot Robinson

Annot Robinson

Suffragette and pacifist. Born as Annot Erskine Wilkie in Scotland. Nicknamed Annie. Trained and worked as a teacher. She was sentenced to six months for trying to break in to the House of Commons....

Person, Gender Issues, Peace, Scotland

1 memorial
Roger Robinson, Cllr

Roger Robinson, Cllr

One of the longest running councillors in Camden, when he stood down in 2022 he was given the title Alderman. First elected in 1964 he served a total of 38 years in 2 stints. He attended the first ...

Person, Politics & Administration, Scotland

2 memorials
Sir Henry Robson

Sir Henry Robson

Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kensington twice: 1905-6 and 1906-7. An active Methodist.  We believe he had a daughter who married in 1902: "Jessie Murdoch Robson, daughter of Sir Henry Robson and L...

Person, Politics & Administration, Scotland

1 memorial
Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery

Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery

In 1874, on the death of her father, Mayer de Rothschild, she became the richest woman in Britain. Married 5th Earl of Rosebery, who, after her death, achieved his ambition of becoming Prime Minis...

Person, Philanthropy, Scotland

1 memorial
Arild Rosenkrantz

Arild Rosenkrantz

Danish painter/illustrator/stained glass artist, and, rarely, sculptor. "Although born in Denmark, Rosenkrantz grew up from the age of three in Scotland and settled in London at twenty eight. He ha...

Person, Art, Sculpture, Denmark, Scotland

1 memorial
42nd Royal Highlanders

42nd Royal Highlanders

Infantry regiment of the British army. Originally a militia raised to build a network of roads, it became known as the Black Watch because of the dark green tartan with which they were issued. It w...

Group, Armed Forces, Scotland

1 memorial
Myra Josephine Royal

Myra Josephine Royal

Myra Josephine Royal was born on 20 December 1958 in the Dominican Republic and grew up in Houston, Texas, USA. She was a daughter of Boswell and Eloise Royal. Our Picture Source and the Clipper C...

Person, Aviation, Tragedy, Caribbean Islands, Scotland, USA

1 memorial
Major-General William Roy

Major-General William Roy

Military engineer, surveyor, antiquary. Born South Lanarkshire.  Founder of the Ordnance Survey. 1749-55, one of a team that produced "The Duke of Cumberland's Map", commissioned by  George II as ...

Person, Armed Forces, Engineering, History, Science, Scotland

2 memorials
John Scott Russell

John Scott Russell

One of the Secretaries to the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition 1851. Engineer and navel architect. Born at Parkhead, near Glasgow. Died at Ventnor, Isle of Wight

Person, Architecture, Engineering, Scotland

1 memorial
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