Motor manufacturer and philanthropist. Born Worcester. Began work in a bicycle shop and designed the first Morris car in 1912. Founder of the Morris Motor Company and founder of the Nuffield Foundation and Nuffield College, Oxford. Although he married he had no children so his funds were available for endowments, etc., and, on his death at his Oxfordshire home, Nuffield Place, Nuffield, he was the last as well as the first Lord Nuffield.
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Lord Nuffield, William Morris
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Viscount Nuffield statue
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First residential roof-top wind turbines
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Frederick Winsor
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1 memorial
George Croydon Marks
Engineer and politician. Born in Eltham. He was apprenticed at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. In 1882 he joined Tangye Ltd in Birmingham and became head of the lifting-machinery department and an exp...
1 memorial
John Kemp Starley
Inventor and industrialist, who sold the first recognizably modern bicycle. Starley went into business with William Sutton, with the intention of producing bicycles that were safe and easy to use. ...
1 memorial
Boylett Herbert Jupe
Electrician on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above Bar Street,...
1 memorial
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Islington Council
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Hotel Russell - Lord Salisbury
WC1, Russell Square, 1-8
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1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Mrs. Eliz. Doughty and the Bedford Charity
WC1, Sandland Street, 48 - 47A
These plaques mark property boudaries and identify ownership.
2 subjects commemorated
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