Born Camberwell. Employed as an insurance company director. Edwin Richard, his father, was MD of United Friendly Insurance Company. A 1938 London Gazette refers to UF at 42 Southwark Bridge Road. He died in 1980. According to the plaque he was chair of which ever company built the current office building. All that put together strongly suggests that RCB had been a senior manager at UF offices at the site of the memorial.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Richard Courtney Balding
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Richard Courtney Balding
The pediment is at about ground level, between the window and the pavement ra...
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W. Chas. Potter
On the committee of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919.
John Jackson Wheeler
Member of the Chelsea Vestry Hall Building Committee in 1885. In a 1904 newspaper a report concerning a proposal at St Luke's Church was described as "formerly chairman of the Chelsea vestry".
G. Morris
Co-church warden of St James & St John, Clerkenwell in 1890.
Efthymios Kjotzas
In 2012 he was the Mayor of Olympia, a town in Greece, close to the archaeological site of the same name.
Frederick Lockyear
Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was on the building committee for the Abbey Wood branch in 1912.
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S. J. Fordham
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
King George V
Reigned: 1910 - 1936. Born third in line to the throne, after his father (who became King Edward VII) and his elder brother Prince Albert Victor, who died early. Crowned on 22 June 1911. Married ...
Hammersmith Bridge
The original bridge was designed by William Tierney Clark, and was the first suspension bridge over the River Thames. By the 1870s, it became evident that it was not strong enough to support the vo...
Dennis Bergkamp
Footballer. Born in Amsterdam. Nicknamed 'The Non-Flying Dutchman' because of his aviophobia. He played for Ajax in his home country and for Arsenal F.C. from 1995 to 2006.
Abdulaziz El-Wahabi
Abdulaziz El-Wahabi was born on 1 December 1964 in Larache, Morocco. He moved to the UK with his parents when he was 9 years old and in 1995, in Morocco, he married Faouzia Rami, who was also Moroc...
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