Group    From 1890 

Guinness Trust / Guinness Partnership

From the Picture source: "In 1890 Sir Edward Guinness set up The Guinness Trust, donating £200,000 to the Trust in London, with an additional £50,000 for the Dublin Fund, which later became the Iveagh Trust. His vision was to provide decent and safe homes for working class people."

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Guinness Trust / Guinness Partnership

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Lorne House

Not the style, but the high quality of this plaque reminds us of the one in B...

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Sir Ken Olisa, OBE, CStJ, FRSA, FBCS

Sir Ken Olisa, OBE, CStJ, FRSA, FBCS

Sir Kenneth Aphunezi Olisa is a businessman and philanthropist. The first black Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London. He founded and led the AIM-listed technology merchant bank Interregnum and now lea...

Person, Education, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Race Issues

1 memorial
Julia, Countess of Ducie

Julia, Countess of Ducie

Wife of Henry Reynolds-Moreton, Third Earl of Ducie. There is no portrait and virtually no other information available about her, so we have used a picture of the monument to her in Tortworth Churc...

Person, Philanthropy, France

1 memorial
Robert Bell

Robert Bell

Elizabethan seafarer. With Peter Hill he co-founded the St Mary Rotherhithe Free School, to educate the sons of local seafarers. In the nearby church of St Mary the Virgin there is a brass plate co...

Person, Education, Philanthropy, Transport

1 memorial
Sir John Kirk

Sir John Kirk

J.P., Christian philanthropist, the children's friend.  Not to be confused with Sir John Kirk (1832-1922), the African explorer.  Sir John's great great grandson, Peter Mitchell, contacted us to sa...

Person, Children, Education, Philanthropy

1 memorial
Sir D. T. Keymer

Sir D. T. Keymer

Hon Treasurer of the Committee to restore Bishop Wood's Almshouses in 1930. Durham University has a 1924 photo of him in a group where he is named as "Sir D. T. Keymer, Messrs. Keymer & Sons a...

Person, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, New Zealand, Sudan

1 memorial