Person    | Female  Born /1/1891  Died 28/10/1972

Lillian Lenton

Categories: Gender Issues

Suffrage campaigner and hunger striker.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Lillian Lenton

Creations i

Suffragettes sculpture scroll

This is made of fibreglass finished in cold cast bronze, and the scroll form ...

Read More

Other Subjects

Blue Plaque Rebellion

Blue Plaque Rebellion

Writing her book 'Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives' Anna Kessel, was shocked at the lack of recognition for sportswomen from the past. Hence the Blue Plaque Rebellion, set up with the...

Group, Gender Issues, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Boo Armstrong

Boo Armstrong

Born as Rachel Armstrong she grew up in Ealing. As an adult lived in Camden - the photo shows her on her canal boat Moonshine on which she lived in the Cumberland Basin from 1999. The Picture sourc...

Person, Gender Issues, Medicine

1 memorial
Admiral Duncan pub bombing

Admiral Duncan pub bombing

Well known as a gay pub, the Admiral Duncan was the site chosen by Neo-Nazi David Copeland to detonate a nail bomb which killed three people and wounded 70. Copeland, who was also responsible for ...

Event, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Gender Issues, Terrorism, Tragedy

3 memorials
Leonard Montefiore

Leonard Montefiore

Author and philanthropist. Leonard Abraham Montefiore was born Kensington.  Grand nephew to Moses.  Was a friend of Oscar Wilde when they were both at Oxford University.  Chief assistant to Samuel ...

Person, Gender Issues, Philanthropy, USA

1 memorial
East London Toy Factory

East London Toy Factory

Opened by Sylvia Pankhurst as an answer to the dozens of tiny failing workshops where women were paid a pittance. Toys were no longer being imported from Germany, so the factory employed 59 women t...

Building, Children, Commerce, Gender Issues

1 memorial

Previously viewed

Carol Goddard

Carol Goddard

Founder member of the Amwell Society.

Person, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Pepys Estate

Pepys Estate

Built by the GLC, the Pepys Estate was opened by Earl Mountbatten. The section to the east of Grove Street stands on the site of the Royal Victoria Victualling Yard. The excellent Municipal Dreams...

Place, Social Welfare

2 memorials
Otto Schiff

Otto Schiff

WC1, Tavistock Square, Woburn House

Otto Schiff, CBE, 1875 - 1952, founder and director of the Jewish Refugees Committee, which was based here, 1933 - 1939. Erected by The A...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Gunner William Holloway

Gunner William Holloway

HMS Monarch, Royal Marine Artillery, South Africa.

Person, South Africa

War dead, Other war
1 memorial