Overseer of St Marys Rotherhithe in 1886.
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John D. Hawkins
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St Mary Rotherhithe gate piers - north
The necessary repairs to the walls, railings and gates of the churchyard buri...
St Mary Rotherhithe gate piers - south
Given the state of the inscription we hope you are impressed with our ability...
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D. Meinertzhagen
Daniel Meinertzhagen VI. Head of the Frederick Huth merchant bank, as his father had been before him. Treasurer of the committee that built the extension to the German Hospital, which, given his we...
Sir Rowland Hill
Initiator of the uniform Penny Post in 1840. Due to him Britain was the first country to use adhesive stamps and thus we do not have to put the name of our country on them. This is analogous to the...
Fabian Society
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Andrew Sweet
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Baron George Allardice Riddell
Newspaper proprietor, The News of the World in particular. Chairman of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, in 1926 when he, together with George Eastman, and Sir Albert Levy, funded the cons...
Sadiq Khan
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Hoxton Market Christian Mission
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Richard Burton
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