Born 4 Park Street (which is now 20 Queen Anne's Gate) as Henry John Temple. Liberal Prime Minister 1855 - 58 and 1859 - 65. See First passenger underground.
Died Brocket, Hertfordshire, his wife's property. A wit to the last, his dying words were: "Die, my dear doctor? That is the last thing I shall do."
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Lord Palmerston
2018: Via Facebook (on head 3 page) Jackie Hoare directed us to the Telegraph...
{Left most double plaque - top:} LCC Lord Palmerston, 1784 - 1865, statesman,...
London County Council In this house, formerly a royal residence, lived Lord P...
{On the front of the plinth and repeated on the back:} Viscount Palmerston {...
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Lord Palmerston
This chief stone of the new building, in extension of the Sailors' Home was l...
Naval officer. On 15 February 1783 he was court-martialled, along with his officers and crew, on the Warspite in Portsmouth harbour for having lost the ship the Hector. They were all honourably a...
First Prime Minister of Great Britain. An early political victim of satire, the target of Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, Hogarth and Thomas Gay. Walpole responded by setting up the office of the...
Socialist writer and activist. Karl Marx's daughter, born 28 Dean Street and nicknamed Tussy. Her father's secretary from an early age, she returned home to nurse her aged parents. Created the fir...
Woolwich became part of the London metropolitan area in the mid-19th century, although it remained in Kent until 1889, with the formation of London County Council, when it became part of London. In...
J.P., businessman and local politician active in West Ham. Member of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee, West Ham, 1905. Born Winchester. Spratt moved to London, initially living in Edgw...
Unusually, this park was created out of land which had previously been built on. It is one of the largest parks in south London, and is still unfinished. The area was developed in the 19th century ...
In 1972 a prison guard was murdered in Angola Prison, Louisiana, USA, where Herman Wallace, Robert King, and Albert Woodfox were prisoners. Wallace and Woodfox were convicted of the murder; King w...
Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA
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