Businessman and philanthropist. Leonard Gordon Wolfson was the son of the first baronet, Sir Isaac Wolfson, a businessman who made a fortune with Great Universal Stores and created the philanthropic Wolfson Foundation. Leonard, the second baronet, followed in his father's footsteps, becoming chairman of GUS and of the Foundation.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Lord Wolfson of Marylebone
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Lord Wolfson bust
Lord Wolfson of Marylebone, 1927 - 2010, businessman and philanthropist.
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Duchess of Sutherland and Countess of Cromarty
Active in 1885. Visit the picture source and you will see that Ron Hodgkinson, the owner of the painting, is trying to verify the identification of the sitter. So we are not certain that it is the ...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Andrew Bonar Law
British Prime Minister. Born Kingston, New Brunswick, (which at that time was a British colony and not part of Canada). After his mother's death in 1870 he moved to Scotland. Elected to parliament ...
1 memorial
Councillor A. J. Gillian
Chairman of the Public Health and Sanitary Committee of Southwark Council in 1936.
1 memorial
Alderman Leonard John Chalstrey, MA, MD
Sheriff of the City of London and Alderman on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
1 memorial
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Morris Singer Foundry
Founded by John Webb Singer as the Frome Art Metal Works. Cast many of the best known sculptures in London, including the statue of Justice on the Central Criminal Court, 1906. Merged with the Morr...
23 memorials
Tate Galleries
Four art galleries. The original was founded in Millbank in 1897, as the National Gallery of British Art. It was renamed in 1932 after Henry Tate who had laid the foundations for the collection. Ta...
1 memorial
Hackney Council
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils of Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington, all three of which had been created in 1900. Previously they had been paris...
61 memorials
Korean War memorial
SW1, Victoria Embankment, Victoria Embankment Gardens - Whitehall section
The phrase "distant obligation..." references a cabinet meeting on 25 June 1950 at which, in the context of British involvement, Korea wa...
3 subjects commemorated,
13 creators
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