Person    | Male  Born 1719  Died 1804

Peter Holford

Peter Holford

Governor of the New River Company, in 1786, a Master in Chancery and a director of the East India Company. Died in 1804 ‘immensely rich’. From History of Parliament.

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Peter Holford

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Clarendon Arch - 1786

This bank of earth was raised and formed to support the Channel of the New Ri...

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Henry Fox, Baron Holland

Henry Fox, Baron Holland

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William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester

William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester

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Thomas Horn

Thomas Horn

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Henry Doubleday

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Queenie Isabella White

Queenie Isabella White

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Daphne Doreen Abbs

Daphne Doreen Abbs

Daphne Doreen Abbs was born as Daphne Doreen Miles on 25 September 1930. She was the youngest of the three children of Gilbert Redvers Miles (1900-1958) and Lily Rose Miles née Lines (1901-1974). H...

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Avro No. 1 Triplane

Avro No. 1 Triplane

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John Raisin

John Raisin

A recruitment consultant, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 61. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: John D. B. Raisin was born on 26 August 1938, the son of Alec R...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial