President of the Chelsea Temperance Society from 1885 to 1894.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Henry Brass
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Chelsea Temperance Society - Brass
Chelsea Temperance Society, founded 1837. To the memory of John Henry Brass, ...
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Henry Bidgood
Businessman elected by Westminster St James Vestry to be a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works, 1856 - 1877. Died at home in St John's Wood.
1 memorial
Col. Sir James Cantlie, KBE, MA, MB, FRCS, RAMC (T)
Sir James Cantlie was a British physician. He was a pioneer of first aid, which in 1875 was unknown. He was also influential in the study of tropical diseases and in the debates concerning degenera...
Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration, China/Hong Kong, Egypt, Scotland
1 memorial
Samuel Plimsoll
Born Bristol. "The sailors' friend", whose Load Line prevented ships becoming dangerously overloaded. Sand shoes were renamed for him since the lower section is rubber and the upper is canvas: dry...
1 memorial
Lord George Cavendish Bentinck
Grandson of the 3rd Duke of Portland. Member of Parliament for Kings Lynn. Private secretary to George Canning, his uncle. Voted for the Reform Bill and as head of the Protectionist Party opposed ...
1 memorial
Alderman Wilfred E. Mullen
Mayor of Holborn in September 1942. In the picture he's the chap in the white gloves and necklace.
1 memorial
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King's Hall Picture Palace
It is thought to have been the first purpose built cinema in Britain, with a seating capacity of 850. Over the years it was renamed as the 'Gaiety Picture House' and then the 'Regent Cinema'. It wa...
1 memorial
Ballet Rambert
Britain's oldest dance company. Founded by Dame Marie Rambert initially as Rambert Dancers, and then, at the Mercury Theatre, in 1931, as the Ballet Club and then, until the 1980s, as Ballet Ramber...
2 memorials
Godwin Forde
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Godwin O. Forde was born on 30 September 1962 in Paddington. Along with his twin, Doran L. Forde, they wer...
1 memorial
Rev. John Newton
A slave-trader turned preacher and abolitionist. Born Wapping. Began his ecclesiastical career at Olney in Buckinghamshire where he wrote the words to 'Amazing Grace' and published the hymn in a ...
1 memorial
1928 flood
The Environment Agency gets the date wrong but we assume the rest is correct: "On 12th January 1928, numerous areas in London and the surrounding local authorities were flooded. In Lambeth, 14 peop...
2 memorials
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