This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
First public library in St Pancras
Commemorated ati
Highgate Branch Library - inside
Borough of St Pancras - Highgate Branch Library This library was opened by Hi...
Highgate Branch Library - outside
St Pancras Borough Council This stone was laid on Thursday the 14th. June 19...
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Sir Hans Sloane
Physician, benefactor of the British Museum and an early benefactor to the Chelsea Physic Garden. Responsible for the addition of milk to chocolate to produce a palatable drink. Born Killyleagh, Ir...
Person, Benefactor, Medicine, Museums / Libraries, Race Issues, Science, Ireland
Henry E. Poole
Secretary to the Commissioners for the 1892 Westminster Public Library. Became librarian in Great Smith Street in March 1881 and went on to be employed by Westminster City Council as a branch libra...
Henry Buxton Forman
Born Camden Place, Southampton Street, Camberwell. Bibliographer and forger. An authority on the lives and works of Shelley and Keats. He also had a lifelong career in the Post Office and was award...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Museums / Libraries, Politics & Administration
St Bride Foundation Institute
Established to meet the educational, cultural and social needs of a community working within the burgeoning print industry of the Victorian era. The Londonphile has visited and photographed the in...
Group, Journalism / Publishing, Museums / Libraries, Theatre
J. Duff-Brown
Islington Librarian in 1906. We believe he also published books on librarianship.
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War damage at V&A
SW7, Exhibition Road, Victoria & Albert Museum
The text is engraved on the wall at the new (2017) entrance in Exhibition Road, but the damage can be seen all the way down to Cromwell R...
C. A. Collins
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Sir Alexander Korda
Film producer. Born Sandor Kellner in Hungary. Worked in film in Hungary, Austria and Germany and then in Hollywood 1926-30. He then moved to Britain where he became a leading figure in the film i...
Eton Manor - WW2
E20, Eastway, Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre
The text on the top plaque refers to two locations: "here and at the Eton Manor Club in Hackney Wick". But that plaque and the others wit...
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