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...
Reverend Francis Godolphin Pelham, briefly 5th Earl of Chichester. Born as the second son of 3rd Earl of Chichester and as such not expecting the title he went into the church. But his brother, Wa...
Second Lord Kensington. He served as member of parliament for Haverfordwest from 1802 to 1818. He was the instigator of the failed Kensington Canal. Constructed in 1828 it was replaced with rail tr...
Chairman of Housing Committee, Diss Street 1922.
Born Bristol. "The sailors' friend", whose Load Line prevented ships becoming dangerously overloaded. Sand shoes were renamed for him since the lower section is rubber and the upper is canvas: dry...
Daniel Meinertzhagen VI. Head of the Frederick Huth merchant bank, as his father had been before him. Treasurer of the committee that built the extension to the German Hospital, which, given his we...
Founded by John Courage at the Anchor Brewhouse site. The earliest existing building dates from 1871 and was largely rebuilt in 1894 - 1895. Reconstructed, restored and refurbished in 1985 - 1989....
In the early hours of Friday 16 October 1987 a great storm struck South East England. In four violent hours London lost 250,000 trees. Its skyline changed for ever. 22 people were killed in Englan...
Born and died in Stratford-upon-Avon. His birth date is usually given as the 23rd, the same date as his death, but all that is actually known is that he was baptised 3 days later, on the 26th. Even...
Queen Elizabeth II. A London Inheritance's post 2nd June 1953 – Coronation Day In London has some great photos.
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