Person    | Male  Born 1672  Died 1726

Humphrey Wanley

Categories: Museums / Libraries

Librarian to the Earl of Oxford, and antiquary.

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Humphrey Wanley

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Old Church Garden - burials

The right-most of 3 plaques on the back wall of the garden.

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King Edward the Seventh's Galleries

King Edward the Seventh's Galleries

An extension to the British Museum by the architect Sir John James Burnett.

Building, Museums / Libraries

1 memorial
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston

William Ralston Shedden-Ralston

Born York Terrace, Regent’s Park. His strange name seems to be the result of his father's near-illegitimacy and subsequent extensive litigation. Librarian, folklorist and Russian scholar. He gra...

Person, Law, Museums / Libraries, Russia

1 memorial
Victoria & Albert Museum

Victoria & Albert Museum

The South Kensington Museum opened on this site in 1857. It expanded and was renamed the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1899. A further expansion by Aston Webb opened in 1909. Also see Francis Fow...

Building, Museums / Libraries

4 memorials
University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archive

University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archive

Founded by Richard Ekins at the University of Ulster. The Archive ceased its connection with the University of Ulster in July 2010, when Richard Ekins became Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Cul...

Group, Gender Issues, Museums / Libraries

1 memorial
William Alfred Westropp Foyle

William Alfred Westropp Foyle

Founded Foyles Bookshop in 1903.  Born Shoreditch, the 7th child of a 7th child of a 7th child.  William and brother Gilbert opened their first bookshop in Islington, moved to Peckham and then Ceci...

Person, Commerce, Museums / Libraries

1 memorial