Born Stafford. A chartered accountant, in 1916 we find him appointed to wind up a number of companies who were prosecuted under the Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act, 1916. Churchwarden of St James's, Piccadilly in 1954. Father of Edward. Died Hampstead. Obituary at Bostock.net.
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Geoffrey Rowley Bostock
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St James's war damage
This church, built by Sir Christopher Wren, consecrated on July 13th 1684, da...
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Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC
Soldier and administrator. Born Bernard Cyril Freyberg in Richmond, Surrey. He spent his early life in New Zealand, and at the outbreak of WWI enlisted in Britain and fought in Gallipoli and France...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, France, New Zealand, Turkey
H. Oughton
Co-churchwarden of Chelsea Old Church in 1882. In 1884 he was named on a tablet inside the church, still a co-churchwarden.
Prince Metternich
Politician and statesman. Born Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Fürst Von Metternich-Winneburg-Beilstein in Coblenz. At the age of 28 he was Austrian Minister at Dresden, then Berlin and Paris...
B. Traven
Pen-name of a novelist about whom little is known for certain other than the fact that he spent time in Mexico where he died. Author of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', 1927, made into the 1948 ...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Germany, Mexico
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Sir Follett Holt
EC3, Byward Street, Tower Hill Terrace
Since they are rather lovely we chose to photo one of the gate-post sculpted finials rather than the inscription. The other sculpture de...
Battle of Culloden
Final confrontation of the 1745 Jacobite Rising and the last battle fought on British soil. The supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie fought King George II's forces led by the Duke of Cumberland. T...
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