Past Prime Warden of The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers and son of Dennis Robinson.
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Tony Blair
Prime Minister. Born Edinburgh.
Person, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Scotland
Sir Francis Knollys
Treasurer of the Royal Household. Served Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Father to Viscount Wallingford. Surname pronounced "Noles" - another shibboleth for that Nazi spy disguised as one of us.
Thomas F Gibson
One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851.
William Honey
Trustee of the Lambeth Hayles Estate development in 1894.
Sir Richard Weston
Born Buckinghamshire. First Earl of Portland. Charles I's most influential adviser after Buckingham's death in 1628. Lord Treasurer. Died at Wallingford House, where Admiralty House now stands.
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Queen Eleanor of Castile
Born to the King of Castile she was aged 13 when she married the future King of England, Edward I. It was a political, arranged marriage which seems to have been happy and successful as well, if 16...
Harkness Roses
Rose growing company, founded in Yorkshire by brothers John and Robert Harkness, and still run as a family firm.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Born as Frances Eliza Hodgson in Cheetham Hill on the edge of Manchester on 24 November 1849 and author of Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden. She died, aged 74 years, on 29 October 1924...
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