Person    | Male  Born 1725  Died 1795

Nathaniel Acton

Categories: Property

Nathaniel Acton was a wealthy successful Suffolk landowner. British History Online describes the land he owned in and around Shoreditch, stretching into Hackney and Bethnal Green. The painting is by Gainsborough, 1758. Information from Kirby and His World.

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Nathaniel Acton

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Nathaniel Acton mosaic

{At the centre:} This estate is named after Nathaniel Acton, 1725 - 1795, who...

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Bolton House / 71 Russell Square

Bolton House / 71 Russell Square

UCL has an extremely helpful page on Bolton House: Built in 1759 for Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore (1731-71) as Baltimore House and in 1770 leased by the Duke of Bolton when it changed its...

Building, Property

1 memorial
H. E. Tufton

H. E. Tufton

Surveyor of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919, he may have also designed the building in Bow Road.

Person, Property

1 memorial
Stamford Street Unitarian Chapel

Stamford Street Unitarian Chapel

Built to house two congregations which had united following the loss of their chapels: Princes Street, Westminster and St. Thomas's Street, Southwark. In 1897 the congregation of the Blackfriars Mi...

Building, Property, Religion

1 memorial
Northumberland House - St Martin's le Grand

Northumberland House - St Martin's le Grand

Belonged to King Henry IV who gave it to his wife Queen Jane after which it was called her Wardrobe. It was afterwards a printing-house, and then a tavern. Not to be confused with Northumberland Ho...

Building, Property

1 memorial
Swan Housing Association

Swan Housing Association

Established in the 1990s. As at 2025 Swan Housing Association is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sanctuary.

Group, Property, Social Welfare

1 memorial