Thomas Allom
Died 21/10/1872, 147 years ago
Architect and artist. Born Lambeth. Founding member of RIBA. Travelled extensively and illustrated topographical publications. Waymarking has the text of a 1997 paper by Leslie du Cane which sa...
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Mr & Mrs Lionel Barnett
Started 21/10/1871, 148 years ago
We can find no information about "Mrs" but the Encyclopaedia Judaica lists a Lionel Barnett that could be our Lionel and Wikipedia adds some details: Orientalist. Born Liverpool. Joined the Brit...
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George Frederick Bodley
Died 21/10/1907, 112 years ago
Ecclesiastical architect. Born Hull. George Gilbert Scott was his brother-in-law's brother and encouraged him to take up architecture and took him on as his first pupil. Initially practiced in Br...
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Sir Alan Cobham
Died 21/10/1973, 46 years ago
Aviator. Born Alan John Cobham in Camberwell. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in World War I, and went on to become the first test pilot for the de Havilland Aeroplane Hire Service. In 1932 he sta...
Person, Aviation, Caribbean Islands
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Born 21/10/1772, 247 years ago
Poet and critic. Born Devon. Died London. Buried in the chapel of Highgate School. In 1961 his and other coffins were moved to the crypt of the nearby St Michaels and a stone was unveiled by John M...
Person, Poetry, Seriously Famous, Literature
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