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Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
Newspaper owner. He and his brother Alfred, later Lord Northcliffe, developed the London Daily Mail and Daily Mirror. Born Hampstead. During the lead up to WW2 he was a strong supporter of Oswald M...
Charlotte Denison Viscountess Ossington
Sister to Lord George Cavendish Bentinck. 1827 married John Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington but left no children. When her brother (the eccentric 5th Duke) died with no male heir she and he...
Royal National Institute for Deaf People
Established in 1911 as the National Bureau for Promoting the General Welfare of the Deaf by Leo Bonn, this organisation's name has evolved somewhat over time.
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Fireman Richard Daniel Stocking
Richard Daniel Stocking was born on 19 November 1926, the third of the five children of Richard Daniel Stocking (1903-1953) and Rose Florence Stocking née Oates (1902-1951). His birth was registere...
Richard Aylmore
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Brixton bombing
SW9, Electric Avenue
In our photo the Brixton bomb plaque is on the wall above the person in the woolly hat. It had to be raised to this height when the Icela...
Horatio ('Horace') Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
Writer and collector. Youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole. His gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto"' was published in 1764. But his passion was his gothic creation, his house at Strawberry Hill,...
National Portrait Gallery - Chantrey
WC2, Charing Cross Road
This building, 1896, designed by Ewan Christian, has 18 busts contained in medallions around the top of the facades. Starting at the east...
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