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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Sir John Reader  Welch, Bt, MA

Sir John Reader Welch, Bt, MA

Chairman of the Planning and Communications Committee in 1982 for opening Tower Bridge to the public.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Lord Ashfield

Lord Ashfield

Transport organizer and politician. Born Albert Henry Knattriess at New Normanton, Derbyshire. His family moved to the USA in 1880 and changed their surname to Stanley. While working for various tr...

Person, Politics & Administration, Transport, USA

2 memorials
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn

James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn

Born Seymour Place. Educated Harrow School. Twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Father of 13 children that survived infancy, including Claud John Hamilton. Died at home in Northern Ireland.

Person, Politics & Administration, Ireland

1 memorial
Paul Goodman

Paul Goodman

Writer, psychotherapist, social critic and anarchist philosopher. Born New York City. Came to London to teach and for congresses. Died at home in New Hampshire.

Person, Politics & Administration, USA

1 memorial
Ray Strachey

Ray Strachey

Feminist, Liberal politician, mathematician, engineer, artist and writer. NUWSS, unsuccessfully stood for Parliament. Born as Rachel Pearsall Conn Costelloe. 1911 she married civil servant Oliver ...

Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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William Mitchell

William Mitchell

Sculptor. He has worked in a vast variety of techniques and media, producing some grand-scale works. Among his London projects are the interior of the Curzon Cinema, Mayfair, the concrete frieze in...

Person, Sculpture

4 memorials
Kathleen Violet Kingston

Kathleen Violet Kingston

Killed in the Hither Green Zeppelin air raid aged 10.

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War dead non-military, WW1
1 memorial
Phil May

Phil May

Illustrator. Born Philip William May at 66 Wallace Street, New Wortley, Leeds. He worked at several jobs before moving to Australia as cartoonist on the 'Sydney Bulletin'. In 1888 he went to study ...

Person, Art, Australia

1 memorial
Tower Hamlets Council

Tower Hamlets Council

The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middlesex. This division was a liberty, i.e. it was an autonomous area under the jurisdiction of the Constable of the Tower of...

Group, Politics & Administration

54 memorials
Tamsin Cole

Tamsin Cole

Victim of the Marchioness tragedy, aged 24.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial