1st Baron Aberdare. Born Dyffryn Aberdare, Glamorgan. Statesman, serving as Home Secretary and President of the Council. He reformed British licensing laws and headed a commission that established the ‘Official Table of Drops’, which listed how far people of particular weights should be dropped when hanged for a capital offence. Died 39 Princes Gardens.
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Lord Aberdare, Henry Austin Bruce
Unveiled by William Holman Hunt. There must have been a committee to erect th...
Chairman of Environmental Protection and Amenities Committee of Kensington and Chelsea in 1992.
Housing Committee Parmiter Street, 1926. Alderman and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926. Member of the LCC and a Councillor on the Bethn...
Chairman of the GLC Historic Building Committee, 1977 - 1981. British Universities Film and Video Council have an 1979 audio file: "Interview with William Bell, Chairman of the Historic Building C...
August 2023, from Londonist: "The India Club — with its beloved restaurant that's been dishing up south Indian cuisine to Londoners for 70 years — is closing next month. ... The India Club was form...
MP and Prime Minister in the 1830s and 40s. Reorganised the London police force and hence gave rise to the expressions "Peelers" and "Bobbies" for the police. He based the new structure on that of ...
