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Dick Whittington's cat

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See Dick Whittington. The picture is the charming logo adopted by the Whittington Hospital on Highgate Hill.

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Dick Whittington's cat

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Dick Whittington and his cat - Highgate

British History Online (1878) says that in about 1795 "the original stone, be...

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Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, D.B.E., F.R.S.L.

Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, D.B.E., F.R.S.L.

Author. She has won the Booker Prize twice with 'Wolf Hall' (a fictional account of the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell) and 'Bring up the Bodies'. Hilary Mary Thompson was born on 6 July 1952 in...

Person, History, Literature

1 memorial
Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon

Poet and writer. Born Siegfried Loraine (also spelt Lorraine or Louvain depending on source) Sassoon at Weirleigh, Brenchley, near Paddock Wood, Kent. Grandson of Thomas Thornycroft and cousin of S...

Person, Armed Forces, Literature, Poetry, Seriously Famous, France

2 memorials
Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit

Author and poet. Wrote approximately 40 books for children including 'The Railway Children'. Born at 38 Lower Kensington Lane. She married the journalist and politician, Hubert Bland in 1880, but u...

Person, Literature, Poetry

2 memorials
Anne Louise Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein

Anne Louise Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein

Born in Paris. Adam Thorpe has written "Conscious of her physical plainness but 'irresistibly seductive' in conversation, her salons were the focal point for pre-revolutionary reform, and eventual...

Person, Literature, France

2 memorials

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Gunner P. G. Brannon
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Task Force Trees

Task Force Trees

Countryside Commission's Task Force Tree Programme

Group, Gardens / Agriculture

2 memorials
Lewis H. Isaacs

Lewis H. Isaacs

Architect. Born Manchester (or Lancaster depending on source) as Lewis Henry Isaacs. In 1860 he was living in London and appointed Captain in the 40th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps. 1872 he was p...

Person, Architecture, Politics & Administration, Tragedy

1 memorial
R. A. Middleton

R. A. Middleton

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial