Motorcycle designer and manufacturer. Born at 32 Bronti Place, Walworth, Surrey. He became chief designer of the Ariel Cycle Company in 1932, where he designed the four-cylinder Square Four power unit. Managing director of Triumph from 1944 to 1956. Died at Newlands, Capel, Surrey.
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Edward Turner
London Borough of Southwark Edward Turner, 1901-1973, engineer and designer o...
Born Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, son of the Danish Consul and was educated in Germany and later Denmark. Civil engineer who collaborated with many modern architects on projects such as the Sydney Opera ...
Created as Brown & Co, by Samuel Brown, a Naval Captain. Became Brown Lenox & Co in 1828 following Brown going into partnership with his cousin, Samuel Lenox in 1806. The West Ferry Road ...
Engineer and peace activist. Born in Lausanne. He worked in the United States and Japan, returning to Switzerland at the outbreak of WW1. He became a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned beca...
Professor of engineering. FRS. Born Belfast. Aged 25 he was appointed professor of engineering (one of the first to be appointed to such a post in the UK) in Owens College, Manchester. He remai...
1883, Trustee of Lopping Hall, Loughton. According to G. Sludge, ".. a tea broker".
Lost in WW2, 70 years ago, sunk off the coast of the Greek island of Cephalonia. A crew of 60 on board, all perished, 1 survived. How? John Capes was a passenger on the sub and he escaped. Sur...
Male worshippers of St Paul's Church, Covent Garden who were killed serving in WW1.
Born Tiverton, Devon Painter of miniatures, the picture is a self-portrait.
Author and poet. Born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, he added Allan to his name in honour of the family who took him in after his father absconded and his mother died. Lived in London from 18...
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