Politician. Born Edwin Duncan Sandys at the Manor House, Sandford Orcas, Dorset. He entered parliament in 1935, the same year that he married Diana, the daughter of Winston Churchill. He served in several ministerial positions and introduced the Clean Air Act and green belts. Created a life peer in 1974. Died at 12 Warwick Square, Pimlico.
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Lord Duncan-Sandys
Lord Duncan-Sandys, 1908 - 1987, politician and statesman, lived here, 1946 -...
Active in 1864. Prompted by London Details we think this school committee man might be "Iron Henry". Born in London he set up an iron foundry with his brother at Regent's Canal Ironworks, Eagle W...
Lady District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1915-1942. Serving Sister in the Order of St John.
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Hon. Treasurer of the Council of the Hornsey Central Hospital in 1924.
Hon. Sec. to George How Memorial Committee. The damaged memorial seems to have another word after "Maxwell" so it's possible that "Maxwell" is a given name and his surname is something like "Mead".
Administrator of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862. Listed as "The Hon. and Revd. R. Henley - Incumbent" on the Pest House plaque. Vicar of St Mary's Putney in 1886.
A large piece of pre-Cambrian granite mounted on three smaller stones, which give it a rather comical stance.
This information plaque is giving the provenance of the immense slab of information about Beaumont to its left.
London county Council John Harrison, 1693 - 1776, inventor of the marine chronometer, lived and died in a house on this site.
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