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 ...
When we first listed these memorials in 2014 we could find no information about "Mrs" but the Encyclopaedia Judaica listed a Lionel Barnett that could be our Lionel and Wikipedia adds some details:...
Benefactor of Catford. Andrew Behan has provide his research findings: Michael Thomas Whitehall was born on 18 October 1816 in Southend, Lewisham, Kent, the elder son and the fourth of the seven c...
Emily Carpenter, daughter of a Bromley gamekeeper, met George Sparkes while working as his housekeeper. In 1865 she became his second wife. "He is said to have educated the lively and intelligent E...
Murderer. Born in either Newry, County Armagh or Londonderry. His birth year is also given as 1804. He moved to Britain, finishing up in Edinburgh where he met William Burke. Incorrectly thought of...
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