From their website: "Our aim is to preserve and promote Britain’s historical and intellectual assets and to provide assistance to vulnerable members of society."
Edward Stephen Harkness provided the Trust with an endowment of £2m and a very vague specification for its use.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Pilgrim Trust
This monument, built with the aid of funds donated by the Pilgrim Trust, was ...
This phrase sounds rather formal but is probably just a short way of saying "friends living in the Hampton area".
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Founded as the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association it changed its name to include cattle troughs in 1867. London...
John Davan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover KG (1927–2022), The Hon. Simon Sainsbury (1930–2006) and The Right Honourable Sir Timothy Sainsbury (1932–) were the three sons of Alan Joh...
Writer and actress. Born as Winifred Beech in a Suffolk rectory. Died France. 1914 she married John Fortescue (1859-1933, librarian, archivist at Windsor Castle and British Army historian), despit...
Architect. Born in Greenwich. Articled to Thomas Allom. Emigrated to Sydney in 1885 on account of his wife's tuberculosis, but she was to die just 3 years later. 1921-4 he was chairman of the Feder...
Town Clerk and joint Honorary Secretary of the statue committee, Woolwich Council in 1905. We found reference to him still Town Clerk there in 1923.
Second Lieutenant Hugh St. Pierre Bunbury was born on 29 October 1883 in Peshawar, India (now Pakistan), the youngest of the six sons of Colonel William Reeves Bunbury (1839-1906) and Elizabeth Bun...
Born Edinburgh. Journal editor and Spanish scholar. Editor of ‘The Athenaeum’ from 1871 to 1911. Following a tour of Spain in 1874, he dedicated himself to the study of Spanish literature. Died...
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