Psychoanalyst who works near West Smithfield and is interested in local history. He felt passionately that there should be a memorial where the denouement of the 1381 revolt took place and where Tyler fell. Up to this point there had been none. It took him about a year of bureaucratic to-ing and fro-ing to get the go ahead from The City, St Bart's and English Heritage. He commissioned Emily Hoffnung to design and carve the Great Rising memorial. And went on to arrange for the Rosa Luxemburg plaque.
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Matthew Bell
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Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg, 1871 - 1919. On this site in 1907, revolutionary socialist Ro...
The Great Rising / Peasants' Revolt
Matthew Bell realised that The Great Rising lacked a proper memorial and that...
Other Subjects
Greg Callus
One of a list of 26 researchers involved in researching Hester Leggatt's background.
Jenny Murray
One of a list of 26 researchers involved in researching Hester Leggatt's background.
Francis Cranmer Penrose
Architect, archaeologist, astronomer and rower. Born Lincolnshire. Surveyor to the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral 1852 - 1899. Died Wimbledon.
St John's Wood Heritage
We can find no information but assume this is/was a group created to protect the heritage of St John's Wood.
Hampstead Antiquarian and Historical Society
Sir Walter Besant was the first president and the local historians Thomas Barratt and G. W. Potter were members. A London Inheritance has found evidence of its existence up to 1940.
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Warrant Officer Robert William Long
Robert William Long was born on 16 November 1909, a son of Frederick Henry Long and Rebecca Long née George. His birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 1909 in the West Ham registration distric...
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