Born as Raine McCorquodale. Mother Barbara Cartland. Worked for the preservation of ancient buildings. Her second, of three, marriages made her stepmother to Diana, soon to be, Princess of Wales.
She died, aged 87 years, on 21 October 2016. Her Wikipedia page and her obituary in The Guardian newspaper give much information about this lady.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Raine, Lady Dartmouth, Countess Spencer
The plaque is a perfectly nice pub plaque but the pub is adorned with many lo...
Founded to record and commemorate over 335 years of the World’s tea trade in London. Feb 2018 City Matters reported that "a statue recognising the City’s pivotal position in the tea trade planned ...
Chair Hackney-Haifa Twinning Association and co-chair, with councillor Linda Kelly, of the Britain and Israel Olympic Plaque Committee. In 2021 Sugarman was working with the Association of Jewish ...
Architect and decipherer of Linear B script. While still at school he heard about the discovery of Knossos by Arthur Evans, and about the undeciphered Linear B script on the tablets. This mystery ...
Archaeologist. Born at 13 Southwold Road, Hackney. He was one of the first modern archaeologists, who excavated in a methodical way, keeping careful records, and using them to reconstruct ancient l...
We don't know that the Geoffrey Hubbard we found on Wikipedia is the one named on the plaque but it seems likely, especially since the date of death would tally with a plaque being erected in Janua...
The quotation is one of several variations on the same theme. Possible originators include Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincol...
Plaque unveiled by his widow, Lady Antonia Fraser. It says he was born at this address, but in fact, his family didn't move here until so...
Rower. Born Buckinghamshire. Won Olympic gold: 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 - this man can row! But what his connection is to Southwark or the South Bank, we can not discover.
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