Person    | Male  Born 1372  Died 1442

John Carpenter

Town Clerk. Endowed the City of London School in 1442. Our picture is of his statue high up on the wall of the City of London School's glassed ceiling atrium standing over the door to the balcony of the Great Hall.

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John Carpenter

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City of London School - EC4, Embankment

Wikipedia gives the architects as "Davis and Emanuel Pevsner". We believe the...

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City of London School - EC4 - Q.Victoria St

The City of London School was endowed by John Carpenter, Town Clerk in 1442. ...

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Royal Hospital School

Royal Hospital School

The hospital was founded by King William III and Queen Mary II, and the school started in 1712. It was was nicknamed the 'Cradle of the Navy' because of its tradition of training future sailors. Th...

Place, Education

2 memorials
Henrietta Barnett School

Henrietta Barnett School

The school was founded in 1911 and named for Henrietta Barnett.

Group, Education

1 memorial
Charles Robertson

Charles Robertson

Worked in the civil service, 1902 - 1925, in the Egyptian Ministry of Education. At the 1931 London County Council election, Robertson was elected for the Labour Party in Islington East. He lost th...

Person, Education, Politics & Administration, Egypt, Scotland

1 memorial
St Mary’s Girls' Club

St Mary’s Girls' Club

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Building, Education, Property, Social Welfare

1 memorial
William Johnson Cory

William Johnson Cory

Teacher, scholar and poet. Born Devon as William Johnson. As assistant master at Eton College, 1845 - 1872, he composed the words for the Eton Boating Song. In 1850 he published a collection of ...

Person, Education, Poetry

1 memorial

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Builder / Building

Builder / Building

Architectural journal created by Joseph Hansom as 'The Builder', renamed 'Building' in 1966 and still going strong. Edited by Hansom and then Alfred Bartholomew, it became successful and well-respe...

Media, Architecture, Journalism / Publishing, Property

1 memorial
Jack Hedge

Jack Hedge

Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Aneurin Wood

Aneurin Wood

A carrier of the 2012 Paralympic Flame. At that time he was the Inclusion Manager at Hackney Learning Trust, where he created the Hackney School Sports Championships, the largest inclusive sports c...

Person, Sport / Games

1 memorial