Newspaper publisher and politician. Born William Maxwell Aitken in Maple, Ontario. He came to Britain in 1910, and served as an MP 1911-16. In 1919, he took over The Daily Express, and later founded The Sunday Express. In WW2, Winston Churchill made him Minister of Supply, and later Lord Privy Seal.
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Lord Beaverbrook
{Beneath the City of Westminster crest:} A building of historic significance,...
Humourist and writer. Born in Shepherd's Bush, he invented the verse form which took his middle name (his mother's maiden name), and is a four-line nonsense poem about a famous person; an example b...
The building's listing entry says: “Having been established in 1926, the Jewish Daily Post ceased circulation in August 1935 shortly after the refurbishment.” Elsewhere we have read that the Jewis...
Apart from the fact that he won a Pulitzer for "Education of Henry Adams," 1919, all that the web can supply for him is quotations. You might have better luck. We published this plaque in 2009 and...
Born in Lahore in the Punjab to parents of European and Indian ancestry, Thomas Barber Malvery and Jessie Anderson. She came to London in 1900 and trained as a singer at The Royal College of Music....
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Music / songs, Philanthropy, India
Sculptor and illustrator. Born Bloomsbury. Executed a large number of public statues and funerary works, and worked closely with George Gilbert Scott on the Albert Memorial. Died at home 52 Circus ...
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London'. In 2006 the name was changed from just 'Corporation of London' to disti...
6 Dorset farm labourers, transported to Australia for joining a trade union. Following mass protests against their treatment the government was forced to give pardons and eventually after 2 years, ...
The officers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the First London Brigade Royal Field Artillery who laid down their lives in the Great War. Based at Handel Street, Bloomsbury.
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