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
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Ray Strachey
Feminist, Liberal politician, mathematician, engineer, artist and writer. NUWSS, unsuccessfully stood for Parliament. Born as Rachel Pearsall Conn Costelloe. 1911 she married civil servant Oliver ...
Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, 1st Viscount Goderich
Prime Minister 1827-1828. Secretary of State for the Colonies 1827. Father of George. Died Putney Heath.
Dame Frances Gardner
Prominent member of the Fitzroy Park Association and past Dean of the Royal Free School of Medicine. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this lady: Born Frances Violet Gardner, a daug...
Waltham Forest Council
Formed in 1965 from the joining of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow.
John Mixer
Co-churchwarden at Christ Church, Newgate Street in 1882.
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Smith, Elder & Co.
Publishers at 65 Cornhill (the picture) until 1868. Also at 15 Waterloo Place. Their first big success was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. They also published: Thackeray, Darwin, Ruskin, Browning...
Rosslyn Heights
At 1 Rosslyn Gardens, Hampstead. We don't know what went on in "Rosslyn Heights", nor when it ceased, assuming it has.
Lesney Products & Co. Ltd.
The company's name came from the forenames of its founders Leslie Smith (1918 - 2005) and Rodney Smith (1917 - 2013). They were not related, but had been schoolfriends and also served together in t...
Queen Victoria's last visit to the City of London
On her visit she was presented with the city sword by the Lord Mayor. We have found a rare photograph of an amused Queen Vicky to illustrate this event. It may not actually have been taken on this ...
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