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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Thomas Baring

Thomas Baring

Banker and politician, grandson of the bank founder Sir Francis. Born Lee, near Lewisham, Kent. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851. Died at Fontmell Lodge, Bournemouth.

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
James Stephen

James Stephen

Anti-slavery campaigner.  Born Dorset.  Trained in law and worked for a time in the Carribean where he saw the cruelty to slaves and became an abolitionist.  The death of his first wife deepened hi...

Person, Law, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
Councillor, The Rev. G. E. A. Whitworth

Councillor, The Rev. G. E. A. Whitworth

Vice Chairman of Housing Committee, Diss Street 1922.

Person, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Christine Bednell

Christine Bednell

Former Councillor and in 1986-7 Mayor of the Borough of Harrow.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
John Sewell

John Sewell

Co-church warden of St Botolph Without Aldersgate in 1868.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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E. M. Pinkerton

E. M. Pinkerton

Resident of Golders Green killed serving in WW1.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Druid Street arch WW2 bomb

Druid Street arch WW2 bomb

Railway arches were used as air raid shelters in WW2, as they were relatively secure. In the case of Druid Street however, they couldn't survive a direct hit. Depending on source, the number of dea...

Event, Tragedy

2 memorials
Hospital of St Anthony

Hospital of St Anthony

Henry III granted this site to the brotherhood of St. Anthony of Vienna to set up a hospital, which over time consisted of almshouses for the poor, a church and a school. After the dissolution of t...

Building, Education, Religion, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Gloria Holmes

Gloria Holmes

Gloria Caroline Holmes was born on 23 September 1941 at St Martin's Hospital, Bath, Somerset. She was the daughter of James Robert Holmes (1904-1944) and Caroline L. Farmer (1921-1944). Her father ...

Person

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Councillor H. H. Sandford

Councillor H. H. Sandford

Chairman Works Committee for the Chiltern Street car park in 1965. Luckily for us some of his miniature medals were auctioned in 2009 and the lot description gives some information about Flight Li...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial