Born Glasgow. Aged 15 he joined Nobel's Explosives Company and worked his way up to running it. Nobels became part of ICI of which he became Chairman and Managing Director in 1930, following on from Alfred Mond. Died at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington.
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Harry McGowan
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Sir Henry Wellcome
Born Wisconsin, USA, moved to London in 1880 for business reasons. Pharmacist, founder of the Wellcome Trust and Foundation. His collection of books & artefacts relating to the history of medic...
Person, Benefactor, Industry, Medicine, Museums / Libraries, USA
1 memorial
Peter Dobson Allen
Peter Dobson Allen was born on 4 January 1931, the son of Fred Allen (1902-1957) and Ethel Allen née Dobson (1903-1990). His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1931 in the Dewsbury registra...
1 memorial
Harland & Wolff - Galleon's Point
Shipbuilders, ship repairers and engineers with an address in Woolwich Manor Way, but it was an extensive site. We think it was bounded by, clockwise: Woolwich Manor Way, Albert Road, Barge House R...
2 memorials
Chelsea Electricity Supply Co. Ltd
At British History we found this: "The Chelsea Electricity Supply Company, with premises in Draycott Place, empowered to supply electricity in 1886, commenced supply in 1889, in competition with th...
1 memorial
Bronze Age Ltd
Casting foundry based at the Limehouse Basin. It provides a service to artists who wish to cast their original sculptures in bronze or aluminium. Owned and run by Mark Kennedy.
5 memorials
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Emanuel Swedenborg
E1, The Highway, Swedenborg Gardens
When the church was here the address was Prince's Square. Our pin is positioned on the font, the boards around the trees are to the west ...
1 subject commemorated
Tower Hamlets Mission - 1
E1, Mile End Road, 31, Charis
The two plaques are inside the gates, one on each side, on the set back walls facing the pavement. The statue is William Booth and not y...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Pilot Officer Grant Eugene Eichar
Pilot Officer Grant Eugene Eichar was born on 20 April 1915 in Marshalltown, Marshall County, Iowa, USA, the son of Frank Eugene Eichar (1892-1983) and Lucy May Eichar née Grant (1892-1986). His si...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Clement Attlee - Woodford
IG8, Monkhams Avenue, 17
Attlee lived here while he was MP for Walthamstow West.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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