Statesman. Harley Street was named after him.
Responsible for the creation of the South Sea company and was the first governor. This company later became a major player in the Atlantic slave trade.
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Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford
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Pepys, Harley, Etty, Stanfield
In a house formerly standing on this site lived Samuel Pepys, 1633 - 1703, di...
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Sir Henry Knight
Henry Edmund Knight was born in St Marylebone. 1882-3 the Lord Mayor of London. Sources: Wikitree, Grogono.
1 memorial
Captain William Browell
Naval officer. 1799, in command of the Sanspareil, was crippled in an accident, and rendered unfit for active service. RN Lieut-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1809 until his death.
1 memorial
1 memorial
Ernest O. Stuart, LRCP&S, LSA
County Surgeon in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1909-1929. Serving Brother in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
John Prescott
Born in Wales as John Leslie Prescott. Deputy PM 1997 to 2007. During the 2001 election campaign he punched a protester who had hit him with an egg, and it was captured on camera. 2010 made Baron P...
2 memorials
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Wandsworth Council
London borough. Formed from the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and much of the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.
21 memorials
Orange Street Chapel
Also known as the Leicester Fields chapel. Founded by Huguenot refugees who fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Occupied: - 1693-1776 by the Huguenots, - 1776-1...
3 memorials
Battle of Cable Street
Mosley planned to march thousands of his British Union of Fascists through the East End of London, an area where many Jews lived. This attracted a lot of opposition which prompted the police to pro...
3 memorials
John Lawson Johnston
Nutrition promoter and food manufacturer. Born at 29 Main Street, Roslin, Midlothian. He took over his uncle's butcher shop and decided to use the large quantity of beef trimmings produced to make ...
1 memorial
Hotel Russell - Lord Derby
WC1, Russell Square, 1-8
This ornate extravaganza, designed by the splendidly named Fitzroy Doll, was built in 1898. Ornamental Passions has a good post about the...
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