Person    | Male  Born 4/6/1841  Died 17/9/1917

Edwin Waterhouse

Categories: Commerce

Accountant. Born Liverpool to wealthy Quaker parents, brother to Alfred Waterhouse.

With Samuel Lowell Price and William Hopkins Holyland he founded the accountancy firm, Price Waterhouse. President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants 1892-4. Father of Nicholas.

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Edwin Waterhouse

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E. Waterhouse

Edwin Waterhouse, eminent accountant, worked in this building, 1899 - 1905. ...

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Bostall Estate

Bostall Estate

In 1887 Bostall Farm was bought by the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society and run to provide vegetables for the Co-op shops and food for the Society’s horses and pigs. By 1899 it had been decided t...

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Metropolitan Water Board

Metropolitan Water Board

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1 memorial
A. Yeatman & Sons

A. Yeatman & Sons

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Col. Sir Horace Brooks Marshall, K.C.V.O., LL.D.

Col. Sir Horace Brooks Marshall, K.C.V.O., LL.D.

Very successfully pioneered bookshops on railway stations with the business name Horace Marshall and Son. The son being Horace Brooks Marshall, Jnr.  Snr. was a Commoner on the Bridge House Estates...

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First postmarks in the world

First postmarks in the world

Inked date stamps were at first called 'Bishops marks' after their inventor, Henry Bishop, Postmaster General, 1660-1663.   The post office was receiving complaints about late arrival of the post. ...

Concept, Commerce

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Christine Gregory

Christine Gregory

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Greater London Council

Greater London Council

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Edith Neville

Edith Neville

A local reformer honoured with the naming of a primary school after her. Known for her work with the St Pancras Housing Association, she also founded the St Pancras People's Theatre. Elsewhere, w...

Person, Social Welfare

1 memorial
George Cruikshank

George Cruikshank

Engraver, caricaturist and illustrator, best known for his political caricatures and for his illustrations for Charles Dickens novels. His father, Isaac, and brother, Robert, were also illustrators...

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Bella Burge

Bella Burge

Bella was married to boxer (and bank robber, see OldTimeMusicHall) Dick Burge.  They took on the lease of the Surrey Chapel, an ex-chapel which had become a boxing ring in 1910.  Renamed "The Ring"...

Person, Commerce, Sport / Games

1 memorial