Birth date approximate. Essex landowner. One of the twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Charta.
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Richard de Montfichet
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Magna Carta fountain
Interesting that no artist is named for this sculpture. As far as we can tel...
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Charles Hindley
Member of Parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire from 1835 until his death. When he fell ill, his doctor, Robert Bentley Todd, prescribed 'Six pints of brandy to be drunk in 72 hours' as a cu...
1 memorial
Thomas Eccleston Gibb
St Pancras Vestry Clerk in the late 1800s. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man, and found our picture for us: Thomas Eccleston Gibb was born on 21 October 1838 in Liverp...
3 memorials
1 memorial
Sidney Joseph Fox
Sidney Joseph Fox, CC, was a Sheriff in the City of London in 1952.
1 memorial
Mr Charles Lacey
Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.
1 memorial
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Charles Cowden Clarke
Author and Shakespearian scholar. Born in Enfield, at the school run by his father, Reverend John Clarke. John Keats was a pupil at the school for about 7 years (1803-10). Charles taught him and e...
1 memorial
Spa Road Station
A terminus of the London and Greenwich Railway, London's first railway. The original station was badly located and had a very narrow platform. Passengers were supposed to queue on the steps outside...
2 memorials
Dorothy Richardson
Author and journalist. Born Abingdon and brought up in Putney. Her father was bankrupt and her mother had died by suicide by the time Dorothy was 22. Moved to Bloomsbury in 1896 and while working ...
1 memorial
Chenies Street War Memorial
WC1, Chenies Street
Prior to WW2 this crescent was occupied by a landscaped garden and was quite a swanky address. Ornamental Passions has an article on the...
4 subjects commemorated
Corporation of the City of London
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London'. In 2006 the name was changed from just 'Corporation of London' to disti...
185 memorials
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