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Robert Alger Newbon
Governor of the Royal Northern Hospital, 1887-9, who died having bequeathed £15,000 consolidated 2 ¾ per cent Stock to endow the same. The Newbon Ward was named for him. Find My Past has Robert Al...
family of John J. Louis, Jr.
Louis was a businessman and USA Ambassador, 1981 - 1988. His family co-funded the Reagan statue. The dates given here are Louis's.
Sir Bernard Eckstein
Bernard Friedrich Eckstein was the son of Friedrich Gustav Jonathan Eckstein who became wealthy through gold mining activities in South Africa. Bernard lived at his father’s home in Park Lane, Lond...
John Cyril Lees Collingham
John Cyril Lees Collingham was born in 1865, the second of the six children of Joseph Mawer Collingham (1832-1902) and Jane Eliza Collingham née Lees (1836-1919). His birth was registered in 2nd qu...
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William Alexander Robertson
Elder brother to Laurance Grant and Norman Cairns. Left a lot of money in his will to the National Trust to commemorate his brothers. The money was used to buy Sutton House and eight areas of count...
Anzac boulder
SW11, Battersea Park
This sandstone boulder (three quarters of a tonne) is one of 6 removed from a golf course next to Bondi Beach and delivered here by the A...
Field Marshal Montgomery
SE11, Kennington Oval, 52-54, Oval House
English Heritage Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 1887-1976, was born here.
Edward, Duke of Kent
Born London, son of George, Duke of Kent and Marina, the Duchess. Since 1967 Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England.
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