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Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester

Favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Died near Oxford, on his way to Buxton to take the baths.

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Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester

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Alienation Office

"Act 5 and 6 Will. IV.Cap.82" refers to a legal instrument created during the...

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United States constitution

This was partly based on Magna Carta.

Concept, Law, Politics & Administration, USA

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John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster

"Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster" - first line in Shakespeare's Richard II. Fourth son of Edward III. Younger brother to the Black Prince. Uncle to Richard II. Born in Ghent. Lived at th...

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Charles Dew Miller

Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894. From the picture source: "Miller Brothers were established in the early 1870's, the early partners being noted as Charles Dew Miller, George W...

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Percy C. Simmons

Major Sir Percy Coleman Simmons was a a solicitor and local politician. Simmons and Simmons was the legal partnership with his brother, Edward. Served in WW1. A member of the London County Council...

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Hoxton Market Christian Mission

Founded by John and Lewis Burtt. Described by Charles Booth as a "soup kitchen and refuge for the poor". Janet Seale wrote to us in 2013: "I used to attend Sunday School at Hoxton Market Christian ...

Group, Social Welfare

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East London Toy Factory

Opened by Sylvia Pankhurst as an answer to the dozens of tiny failing workshops where women were paid a pittance. Toys were no longer being imported from Germany, so the factory employed 59 women t...

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