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Horatio Prater
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has found someone who is probably our man, Andrew writes: I can find no evidence of an H. Prater in the Croydon area in the 1880's so I believe that the Historic Engla...
G. W. Palmer
We can find nothing on this man but think he was probably a Primitive Methodist who donated for the Caladonian Road Chapel.
Countrywomen of the soldiers that fought with Wellington
This patriotic committee of women, led by Lady Lavinia Spencer, ordered the Achilles statue unadorned. It was the men that insisted on the covering.
Count Simon Woronzow
Ambassador. Born Moscow into an old aristocratic family in the Crimea. The third count Woronzow. Russian Ambassador to the UK, 1784 – 1806 (his brother Alexander, having preceded him in that role, ...
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Andrea Carlo Lucchesi
Born Whitechapel of an Italian father and English mother. Worked as an assistant to Onslow Ford. The picture source is an excellent introduction to this man who favoured naked ladies. Mapping Sc...
J. M. W. Turner
Born (on St George's Day) in Covent Garden. Even as he became successful he refused to modify his working-class accent. Lived alone with his father. Had few friends, two mistresses but never marrie...
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