Group    From 1965 

London Borough of Hillingdon

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

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London Borough of Hillingdon

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Cecil John Kinross VC

Cecil John Kinross, V.C., 1896 - 1957, born here on the 17th February 1896, a...

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Chris Finnegan

Chris Finnegan MBE, 1944 - 2009, professional boxer and olympic champion. 196...

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John Stears

Michael John Stears 1934 - 1999. Born in Uxbridge 25th August 1934. Resided h...

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Lord Miles

Lord Miles of Blackfriars CBE, 1907 - 1991, British character actor, writer a...

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Natasha Baker - Freedom of the Borough

{Around the edge:} London 2012 Paralympic Games - Double Gold Medallist, GB E...

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Other Subjects

Sir (Charles) Vyner Brooke

Sir (Charles) Vyner Brooke

Third and last white Rajah of  Sarawak.  Born Albemarle Street.  Died at his flat at 13 Albion Street, Paddington. Sarawak is on the Island of Borneo.  In 1841 Sarawak was proving troublesome and ...

Person, Politics & Administration, Malaysia

1 memorial
Grigory B. Karasin

Grigory B. Karasin

Grigory Borisovich Karasin was born on 23 August 1949 in Moscow, Russia and was his country's ambassador to the United Kingdom from March 2000 to June 2005. His Wikipedia page gives details of his ...

Person, Politics & Administration, Russia

2 memorials
W. Cowper

W. Cowper

First Commissioner Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Linda Perham

Linda Perham

Politician. Former councillor and mayor for the London Borough of Redbridge. Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2005.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
N. Chamberlain

N. Chamberlain

Councillor in the Borough of Hammersmith in 1948.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery WW1 - casualties

Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery WW1 - casualties

SE4, Brockley Grove, Brockley and Ladywell Cemetry

The names commemorate those who are buried in the cemetery without individual headstones, so some have accompanying touching epithets whi...

War dead | WW1
112 subjects commemorated
Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

Poet and administrator. Whilst living in the Aldgate, as the ‘Comptroller of the Customs and Subside of Wools, Skins and Tanned Hides’ that Chaucer published ‘A Monks Tale’ and worked on ‘Canterbur...

Person, Literature, Seriously Famous

12 memorials
Samantha Hilary Badham

Samantha Hilary Badham

Samantha Hilary Badham was born on 2 October 1969 in Ledbury, Herefordshire, the elder daughter of Albert John Leonard Badham (1938-1995) and Helene Valentine Badham née Godwin (1938-1990). Her sis...

Person, Tragedy

3 memorials
Countess of Wessex, Sophie

Countess of Wessex, Sophie

Born Oxford as Sophie Rhys-Jones.  Worked in PR.  Married Prince Edward in 1999.

Person, Royalty

3 memorials
Reform League

Reform League

A group who campaigned for adult male suffrage, at the time limited to adult males who rented propertied land of a certain value.  The Reform Act of 1867 (the Second Reform Act) largely gave them w...

Group, Politics & Administration

1 memorial