Person    | Male  Born 1593  Died 9/5/1641

Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford

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Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford

In 1631 commissioned Inigo Jones to build the residential square at Covent Garden, with a piazza at the centre.

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Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford

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Bedford's Chiswick wall

 Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society confirms our link to the 4th Earl.

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Covent Garden Market

Large bronze relief "Fruit Porter Bronze", unveiled October 2006 by Mayor of ...

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Peake Estates Ltd

Peake Estates Ltd

Real estate managers. According to the Companies House website this a private limited company that was incorporated on 25 March 1935. Their current (2024) registered office address is 172 Old Milto...

Group, Property

1 memorial
Lalla Rookh - house

Lalla Rookh - house

The house in which Moore wrote the poem Lalla Rookh was named for it, possibly by Moore himself.  From British History Online: "Lalla Rookh {was a} two storeyed villa with wide verandah rented in 1...

Building, Property

1 memorial
Cheyne House

Cheyne House

The house and garden can be seen on a number of old maps, such as 1865 OS. From British History online (written in 1913): "Cheyne House consists of two or three different blocks of buildings, none...

Building, Property

1 memorial
Elm Grove manor

Elm Grove manor

The Percevals moved to Ealing in 1808 and purchased Elm Grove manor which was on the site where All Saints Church now stands.  They had 12 children.  After Spencer's murder the government gave his ...

Building, Property

1 memorial
Lion rampant 'H' boundary markers

Lion rampant 'H' boundary markers

These markers are similar in function to Elger's boundary marker, but with no names or dates to assist. The local manor house, Highbury House, used to be on the site of Eton House, Leigh Road, to ...

Place, Property

3 memorials

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Marcelle Quinton

Marcelle Quinton

Sculptor. Niece of American industrialist, Henry J Leir.

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial
Federica Baldassa

Federica Baldassa

Killed by a Greggs delivery vehicle at about 21.20 on a Friday evening, aged 26.  The lorry was turning left into Bloomsbury Square (some yards west of the site of the ghost bike). Came here fro...

Person, Cyclist, Tragedy, Italy

1 memorial
Grinling Gibbons

Grinling Gibbons

Born Rotterdam. Wood carver and sculptor. Other works in London: a marble font in St James's Piccadilly, carvings in Whitehall Palace. Lived and died in Bow Street. See Discovering London for some ...

Person, Sculpture, Netherlands

10 memorials
Auxiliary Firewoman Violet Irene Pengelly

Auxiliary Firewoman Violet Irene Pengelly

Firewoman with the Auxiliary Fire Service. Killed during an air-raid at Cubitt Town School which was being used as an emergency depot. She was aged 19. Violet Irene Pengelly was born on 4 January ...

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
2 memorials