Sportsman and profligate bon vivant, a life-style enabled through his vast inherited wealth. President of the National Sporting Club. Initiated the boxing prize, the Lonsdale Belt. Founder and first president of the Automobile Association, which adopted his favourite colour, yellow. WW1 he was a recruitment officer of both men and horses. After the war he became a senior steward of the Jockey Club and the first president of the International Horse Show at Olympia. Died at home, Stud House, near Leicester. The picture source provides an interesting profile of this larger than life character.
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Hugh Cecil Lowther, fifth Earl of Lonsdale
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National Sporting Club
This building was once known as the National Sporting Club, March 1891 - Octo...
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Thomas Chancellor
Co-churchwarden of Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, August 1817. British History Online has some houses in nearby Ansdell Street being built for a 'Thomas Chancellor' which we think might well be o...
2 memorials
Department of National Heritage
Created on 11 April 1992. By 2013 it had become part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport which sponsors English Heritage.
1 memorial
William Henry Liversidge
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
1 memorial
Emperor Trajan
Imperator Caesar Nerva Trajanus Augustus. Born Spain. Roman Emperor AD 98 - 117. His ashes are buried under Trajan's Column in Rome. Succeeded by Hadrian who built the wall that Trajan had prop...
1 memorial
V. K. Krishna Menon
Politician who campaigned for India's independence from Britain. Lived in London for 24 years. Member of the Theosophical Society. Born Karela, India. Studied at the LSE. He worked for the publishe...
Person, Nationalism, Paranormal, Politics & Administration, India
2 memorials
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War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Michael Tierney
Mine host of the Windsor Castle pub in 1990. Distinguished member of the Handlebar Club since 2007.
1 memorial
George Peabody statue
EC4, Royal Exchange Buildings
Unveiled by the then Prince of Wales, unusually in the subject's lifetime. Too ill to attend the ceremony Peabody died 3 months later. At...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Lord Ritchie of Dundee
Chairman of the Port of London Authority in 1935.
1 memorial
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