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Proprietors of the Quiver

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The Quiver was "a magazine for Sunday and general reading" published around 1876-1925 in New York and London.

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Proprietors of the Quiver

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William Tyndale and the Bible Society

2023: Esther Jung asked us about a date discrepancy on this inscription: both...

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William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount

William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount

Born New York City into an extremely wealthy family.  Lived in Rome in his mid-thirties where he developed a life-long taste for the arts.  On his father’s death in 1890 he built the luxury Waldorf...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Philanthropy, Property, Italy, USA

1 memorial
Punch magazine

Punch magazine

Founded in early June 1841 at a meeting at the Edinburgh Castle public house in the Strand, attended by Henry Mayhew, brewery manager Mark Lemon, and engraver Ebenezer Landells.  The first issue wa...

Media, Journalism / Publishing

4 memorials
Lippincott's Magazine

Lippincott's Magazine

Monthly magazine. Published in Philadelphia until 1915 when it relocated to New York to become McBride's Magazine. It merged with Scribner's Magazine in 1916. It published original works, general a...

Fiction, Journalism / Publishing, USA

1 memorial
George Holyoake

George Holyoake

Radical journalist, secularist and promoter of the Co-operative Movement. Born Birmingham as George Jacob Holyoake. He coined the term "secularism" in 1851 and "jingoism" in 1878. He edited a secul...

Person, Journalism / Publishing

1 memorial
Charles Prestwich Scott

Charles Prestwich Scott

Born Bath, Somerset. Editor and eventually proprietor of the Manchester Guardian. He was a Liberal member of parliament from 1895 to 1905 and embraced the causes of female suffrage and a Jewish nat...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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J. McEnery

J. McEnery

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson

Author, naturalist and ornithologist.  Born on a small ranch, Los Viente-cinco Ombúes, near Quilmes in Buenos Aires province. Came to Britain in 1874 and produced a series of ornithological studies...

Person, Literature, Science, Argentina

4 memorials
Pete Reed gold post box

Pete Reed gold post box

W4, Heathfield Terrace, Chiswick Town Hall

{On plaque attached to side:} This post box has been painted gold by Royal Mail to celebrate Pete Reed, Gold Medal winner, London 2012 Ol...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Dorothy Richardson

Dorothy Richardson

WC1, Woburn Walk

The idea of this plaque may have originated in the 2015 journal article "Dorothy Richardson, Quakerism and 'Undoing': Reflections on the ...

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
Dame Marie Tempest

Dame Marie Tempest

Actress and singer. Born Mary Susan Etherington in London. She studied music in Paris and at the Royal Academy of Music, making her stage debut in 1885 in the operetta Boccaccio at the Comedy Theat...

Person, Cinema, Music / songs, Theatre, France

1 memorial