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Countrywomen of the soldiers that fought with Wellington

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This patriotic committee of women, led by Lady Lavinia Spencer, ordered the Achilles statue unadorned.  It was the men that insisted on the covering.

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Countrywomen of the soldiers that fought with Wellington

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Achilles statue

Modelled on the statue of Dioscuri in Rome. A gay friend of ours is fond of ...

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Thomas Bowman Stephenson

Thomas Bowman Stephenson

Wesleyan minister and benefactor. Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1860. In 1869 he founded the Children's Home (now known as the charity Action for Children) to pro...

Person, Benefactor, Children, Religion

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Linton Henry Nightingale

Linton Henry Nightingale

Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this man: Sergeant Linton Henry Nightingale was born on 25 June 1921 in Balham, the third of the eight children of Linton George Prior Nightingale a...

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War dead, WW2
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