Tory politician. Born at Knowsley Park, Lancashire. Overcame his early boisterous jollity and three times became Prime Minister, each time a coalition caretaker between the giants: Peel and Gladstone. Longest-serving party leader in modern British history (1846 - 68). Abolished slavery throughout the Empire. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. His grandfather founded the Derby race-meeting.
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Edward Geoffrey Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
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Derby statue
The relief panels, by Montford, on the four sides of the plinth show scenes f...
Great Exhibition and Prince Albert
Designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke. Inaugurated by...
Other Subjects
Takeshi Araki
Politician. A survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima. He was mayor of the city from 1975 to 1991. Every year on the anniversary of the bombing, he made appeals to the world to ban nuclear weapons. I...
1 memorial
E. S. Abraham, MRCS, LRCP
Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 (Prince of Wales's) District, 1933-1951. Officer in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Earl Granville, George Leveson-Cower
MP and colliery owner. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951. Born Great Stanhope Street. Died 14 South Audley Street.
1 memorial
Robert Arnold
Church warden of Christ Church Spitalfields in 1867.
1 memorial
Arthur Onslow
Electred Speaker of the House of Commons in 1728, a post he held for a record-setting 33 years. Born Chelsea. View from the Mirror credits Onslow with the invention of kerbstones.
2 memorials
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Arnold Bax
SW16, Pendennis Road, 13
The plaque is located at 13 Pendennis Road, Streatham, but the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says he was born in Angles Road, w...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
John Adams
W1, Grosvenor Square, 9
Nicknamed "little America", the association of Grosvenor Square with America began when John Adams, later President, moved to this addres...
4 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Fred Gaisberg
American musician, recording engineer and one of the earliest classical music producers for the gramophone. Gaisberg concentrated on talent-scouting and persuading performers to make recordings for...
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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