Past Prime Warden of The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers and father of John Robinson.
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Gerard Martin Traynor
Gerard Martin Traynor was born on 9 November 1959, a younger son of John Francis Traynor (1923-1965) and Marian Veronica Traynor née Nesbitt (1926-2016). His birth was registered in the 4th quarter...
Alderman William Ivey
Chair of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee in 1905. London Wikia records a Willaim Ivey who we think in our 'Alderman Ivey': Mayor of the Municipal Borough of West Ham 1897-8, and memb...
Kensington & Chelsea TMO
The tenants and leaseholders of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea manage their own homes, 9,760 properties, through this Tenant Management Organisation.
Peter the Great Company of St Petersburg
We can find nothing about this but guess it is some offshoot of the Russian embassy.
Sir William J. Lancaster
Philanthropist. Born Norfolk. Prominent Putney resident, co-founder of the Putney School of Art 1883, Mayor of Wandsworth 1901-2, and churchwarden of St Mary's for 30 years. Aged 17 joined the P...
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St George's Tufnell Park
We are as certain as can be, that this church in Tufnell Park Road is the St George's whose Band of Mercy was the donor of the drinking fountain at Limehouse Station. Designed by George Truefitt f...
Dr. L. M. Singhvi
High Commissioner for India in the UK, 1991-7: after V. K. Krishna Menon, he was the second-longest-serving. Described on the web as "a great planter of trees. In England he has been planting trees...
Belgium's gratitude for British Aid, WW1
There were over 250,000 Belgian refugees in the UK in WW1. Many were accommodated at Alexandra Palace, but not Hecule Poirot who found refuge at a country house, Style Court. Every year on the Sat...
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