Businessman. Founder of the John Jaques and Son Toy Company, which produced and patented ping pong equipment. See also Jaques of London.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Doug Mullins
A popular local personality. The following text came from the Greenwich Phantom, who would like any more information you have: Doug was the son of Bill Mullins, one of the ‘old school’ of dairymen...
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John Kidd and Co.
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One Tun pub - Saffron Hill
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Chris Blackwell
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Col. Sir Horace Brooks Marshall, K.C.V.O., LL.D.
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Esso UK PLC
Fuel company. The name is a phonetic representation of the initials of the company's predecessor Standard Oil. In 1972 it was generally replaced by the name Exxon.
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