Private David Downer was born on 20 April 1823 in Godshill, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, the eldest of the five children of David Downer (1797-1881) and Jane Downer née Merwood (1791-1879). On 18 May ...

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W. G. R. Sprague

Born in Australia the son of an actress. Worked for Matcham for a time. Designed many famous London theatres, including the Notting Hill Gate Coronet (1898), Wyndhams (1899), the Albery (1903) an...

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Andrew Greenham

stoker. Died on HMS Harrier.

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War dead, Other war

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Maurice Wilkins

Molecular biologist. Born New Zealand. Worked on DNA X-ray diffraction studies 1953 at King's College London with Franklin, Gosling, Stokes and Wilson. 1962 awarded a Nobel Prize with Crick and Wa...

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W11, Holland Park Avenue, 161

Eugen Sandow, 1867 - 1925, body builder and promoter of physical culture, lived and died here. English Heritage

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John Bell

Sculptor. Born Norfolk though his family home was in Suffolk. On the Albert Memorial the America group is his. Died at home at 15 Douro Place, Victoria Road, Kensington.

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