Group    From 7/4/1854 

Marylebone Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes

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Incorporated by royal charter in 1854, possibly on 7th April. Still operating in 1928.

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Marylebone Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes

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Marylebone Assoc. for Improving the Dwellings of the Ind. Classes

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Nicholas Butler

Nicholas Butler

In 1675 he founded two almshouses in Little Chapel Street near Palmer’s Passage for two of the most ancient couples of the best report.   Old maps show Butler's AH on the south-east corner of what ...

Person, Philanthropy

1 memorial
Robert Hanbury

Robert Hanbury

Nephew to Sampson Hanbury (1769-1835) from a family of Quaker merchants, bankers and brewers.  Sampson had taken on the brewery in Brick Lane which had been there since the 17th century. Robert joi...

Person, Philanthropy

1 memorial
Samuel Lewis

Samuel Lewis

Moneylender and philanthropist. A jew, born in a slum in Birmingham, who worked his way into being an established travelling jeweller by 1867, when he married and came with his wife, Ada, to London...

Person, Philanthropy

2 memorials
Abbeyfield Society

Abbeyfield Society

A charity which provides sheltered housing  and care homes for elderly people, now known just as Abbeyfield. Founded by Richard Carr-Gomm, it owns and manages around 200 houses and 20 care homes (2...

Group, Philanthropy, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Sir D. T. Keymer

Sir D. T. Keymer

Hon Treasurer of the Committee to restore Bishop Wood's Almshouses in 1930. Durham University has a 1924 photo of him in a group where he is named as "Sir D. T. Keymer, Messrs. Keymer & Sons a...

Person, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, New Zealand, Sudan

1 memorial