Person    | Male  Born 4/3/1769  Died 2/8/1849

Mahommed Ali, viceroy of Egypt

Categories: Benefactor, Politics & Administration

Countries: Egypt

Viceroy of Egypt in 1819. Born in what is now Macedonia. Regarded as the founder of modern Egypt. Died Alexandria.

 

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Mahommed Ali, viceroy of Egypt

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Cleopatra's needle

Pink granite, 68.5 feet high, 186 tons. Vulliamy created, and Youngs cast, th...

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Miss Ellen Reardon

Miss Ellen Reardon

At the ever-informative MDFCTA we find: Ellen Reardon of 2 New Terrace, Islington died on 4 February 1880. Her sister Margaret Reardon died 13 January 1876. In her will, Ellen Reardon bequeathed so...

Person, Benefactor

2 memorials
London Parochial Charities

London Parochial Charities

In 1880 a report by a royal commission led to the City of London Parochial Charities Act. This provided that the five largest parishes of London could continue to administer their own charitable en...

Group, Benefactor

3 memorials
Lady Emily Fortescue

Lady Emily Fortescue

With one clue from a Council document related to the impressive Time Flies clock tower, we searched high and low for a "Mrs Galpin" who could have been the donor but found nothing to substantiate t...

Person, Benefactor

2 memorials
Thomas Smith

Thomas Smith

Son of Martha.

Person, Benefactor

1 memorial

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Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

NW1, Dorset Square

Marylebone Cricket Club This plaque was unveiled by Colin Cowdrey, President, on 1st June 1987 to mark the bi-centenary of the first mat...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
George Grossmith, Snr

George Grossmith, Snr

Born London. Entertainer and author. Created a number of the great Gilbert and Sullivan roles, including Bunthorne, possibly modelled on Oscar Wilde. With his brother Weedon wrote the comic novel '...

Person, Literature, Music / songs, Theatre

1 memorial
WW2 aircraft crash

WW2 aircraft crash

UB7, Harmondsworth Moor, Middle Meadow

The crash plaque is attached to a large chunk of granite - a piece of the John Rennie Waterloo Bridge (source: Colne Valley Park). And a...

War dead | WW2
11 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Bill Richmond

Bill Richmond

Boxer. Born a slave in Richmondtown, Staten Island, New York. He become a servant of Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland, a lieutenant-general in the British army, and it is presumed that he bec...

Person, Race Issues, Sport / Games, USA

1 memorial
Ted 'Kid' Lewis

Ted 'Kid' Lewis

Boxer. Born Gershon Mendaloff at 56 Umberston Street, St George-in-the-East, Aldgate. One of many young Jewish men who took up boxing as a means of escaping the poverty of the east end of London. H...

Person, Sport / Games, Australia, USA

1 memorial