Newspaper owner. He and his brother Alfred, later Lord Northcliffe, developed the London Daily Mail and Daily Mirror. Born Hampstead. During the lead up to WW2 he was a strong supporter of Oswald Moseley and the British Union of Fascists and of appeasement towards Hitler. In 1940 was asked by the government to go to America to help in the war effort but following a fall he died in a hospital in Bermuda.
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Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
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Coram's Fields
These grounds, the site of the Foundling Hospital, established in 1739 by Cap...
Harmsworth - IWM
In 1926 Harold Harmsworth, the first Viscount Rothermere, bought the grounds ...
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Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
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Gift from Lord Rothermere
This plaque was unveiled a second time, during the 75th anniversary celebrati...
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Commercial Motor Users of Hackney
The name suggest a group of local business people coming together around the use of new-fangled motor-powered conveyances. The text of the plaque tells us that they also had charitable activities. ...
Colonel William Gillum
Born Winchester. Lost a leg in the Crimean War. Fellow Tottenhamite and brother-in-law to Peter Paul Marshall, one of the founders of William Morris's Firm. Gillum was an important patron of the Fi...
A. Yeatman & Sons
Funeral directors based in West Norwood mostly known for monumental masonry, taken over by Smiths of Southwark. The picture source website has an interesting page about the history of their busine...