For 20 years vice-consul of the United States.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Jeremiah le Souef
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Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial
This elaborate piece of high Victoriana was designed by George Highton of Bri...
Other Subjects
Rear-Admiral, Sir Henry Hart, KCH
Naval officer. Born Sussex. Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital. See Indefatigable for more information, but one paragraph there is particularly relevant to Greenwich Hospital: "Following his reti...
1 memorial
Nellie Cressall
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest, at which time she was 6 months pregnant. Nellie Frances Wilson was born on 23 November 1882 in Kilburn, the eldest of the four children ...
1 memorial
Francois Rabelais
Writer and physician. Born France, between 1483 and 1494, but probably November 1494. Became a monk and studied Latin and Greek, then left to study medicine. Died Paris.
Person, Literature, Medicine, Politics & Administration, Religion, France
1 memorial
Geoffrey Finsberg
Conservative politician. Born London. Died Stockholm, there making a speech.
2 memorials
Jean Scott
Founder of The Finchley Society. Andrew Behan found their website very informative: Jean Leslie Scott, The Finchley Society’s founder, was born on 21 March 1921 and lived in Finchley since her ch...
Person, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Science
1 memorial
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John Alfred Prestwich
Inventor and designer of engines. Born Kensington. He worked with Sebastian de Ferranti and the cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene to produce cameras, mutoscopes, cutting and perforation machine...
1 memorial
Dame Mary Quant
Fashion designer. Born Barbara Mary Quant in Blackheath. She and her husband Alexander Plunkett Greene opened their first shop called Bazaar in the Kings Road, Chelsea, selling clothes designed to ...
2 memorials
S. L. Swaab
W6, King Street, 241, Palingswick House
The MDFCTA site says it was erected in March 1888 and was the gift of Mrs Swaam (surely a mistype for Swaab) and cost £115.0.0.
1 subject commemorated
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Breakfast Time
British television's first national breakfast television programme, Produced by the BBC it was revolutionary for the time, mixing hard news with light-hearted features. The presenters, typically wo...
1 memorial
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