Person    | Male  Born 1804  Died 1892

James Buckington Bevington

Categories: Commerce

James Buckington Bevington

Of Neckinger Mills, Bermondsey, a successful leather manufacturers. Father of Samuel Bourne.

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James Buckington Bevington

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Bevington fountain

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W. F. D. Smith, Lord Hambleden

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