The borough was formed in 1965 from the Municipal Borough of Uxbridge, Hayes and Harlington Urban District, Ruislip-Northwood Urban District and West Drayton Urban District of Middlesex.
Hillingdon's blue plaque program began in 2008 focused on commemorating heroes who were born or lived in the borough.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
London Borough of Hillingdon
Cecil John Kinross, V.C., 1896 - 1957, born here on the 17th February 1896, a...
Chris Finnegan MBE, 1944 - 2009, professional boxer and olympic champion. 196...
Michael John Stears 1934 - 1999. Born in Uxbridge 25th August 1934. Resided h...
Lord Miles of Blackfriars CBE, 1907 - 1991, British character actor, writer a...
{Around the edge:} London 2012 Paralympic Games - Double Gold Medallist, GB E...
Mayor of Hackney 1933-34. The picture shows him (the mayor, on the left) at the 1934 ceremony to bury a 'time capsule', a brass canister, below the foundation stone of the current Town Hall in Mare...
Known as Fred Ryan. Was Reagan's Chief of Staff. Chairman of the Board of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. His Wikipedia page gives much information about him.
Chairman of the statue Committee at Woolwich town hall in 1905. The Church Bells of Kent refers to an Alderman George Kelham of Riverston, Wrottesley Road, funding a bell for St Margarets church, ...
Democrat & chartist. Born County Longford, Ireland. Bronterre was initially a pseudonym but he later adopted it as his middle name. A child prodigy, he fell short of his early promise and died ...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Ireland
Geographer, writer and anarchist. Born France. Visited Britain during 1852-7. Supported the Paris Commune of 1871. In 1872 was sentenced to perpetual banishment from France and settled in Switzerla...
Person, Politics & Administration, Belgium, France, Switzerland
Founded by Milly Apthorp and her son John, as a grant-giving benevolent fund. It donates to a variety of causes within the Barnet area of London.
We thank David Hopkins, our Latin consultant, for yet again providing the Latin translation, without which we really would have no idea w...
Composer. Born Halle, Germany. Became Kapellmeister to the Elector of Hanover, soon to become George I of Great Britain. Moved to London in 1712. A governor of the Foundling Hospital. Moved into ...
Priest. Born in Heage, Derbyshire. Vicar of St.Michael's, Aspley Heath in Woburn Sands 1884-99, and Rector of St Paul's Covent Garden from 1899 until his death in a WW1 air raid. He was killed stan...
Sculptor. Born Paris but came to England early and made his home in London. The only other public work in London that we know of is the 1897 Mermaid Fountain or Little Nell, in Hyde Park, just nor...
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