Politician. Born Nottinghamshire. An albino, he suffered poor and deteriorating eyesight so emigrated to Australia in 1841 in the hope of making a quick fortune before going blind. There he established himself as a lawyer and newspaper writer. Returned to England in 1850, wrote for The Times and became an MP. Home Secretary under Gladstone. His proposal to impose a tax on matches failed. Keen on physical activities, according to Margaret Baker, while out cycling in Kenley he fatally injured a greengrocer. His first marriage was unhappy. Only 4 months after her death he married again, to Caroline. No children from either marriage. Died at home, Sherbrooke Lodge, Warlingham.
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Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke
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Viscount Sherbrooke bust
We again thank David Hopkins for the Latin transcription (from some tortuous ...
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Alfred Lafone
Politician. Born Liverpool. Moved to Bermondsey and became a leather merchant. Chairman of the Commissioners of the 1890 Bermondsey Library. MP for Bermondsey 1886 -1892 and 1895 -1900. Died ...
1 memorial
J. Roy Lancaster
We have discovered two facts about a John Roy Lancaster: In 1911 he was working for Messrs. Horne & Co, Auctioneers and Surveyors of 85 Gresham Street, and of 35 Old Queen Street, involved in ...
1 memorial
Paul Goodman
Secretary of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews Hospital.
1 memorial
Lord Richard Haldane
Politician and educationalist. Born Richard Burdon Haldane at 17 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. Entered parliament in 1879. As Secretary of State for War, he founded the Territorial Army and made the...
1 memorial
Olof Palme
Swedish politician, statesman and Prime Minister (1969-76). Born Stockholm. 1986, late one night he and his wife were walking home from the cinema when he was shot in the back and died. No one was ...
1 memorial
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Limehouse Station drinking fountain
E14, Commercial Road, Limehouse Station
The inscription which is on marble is barely legible, so we are grateful Wikipedia for the information. One has to wonder why a group as...
3 creators
Tachbrook - Cockburn
SW1, Bessborough Street
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
1 subject commemorated
Marshalsea 2 - steel
SE1, Borough High Street, Angel Alley
The plaque refers to 'wall mounted artworks' but we did not see any on our visit in 2012, unless the plaques now in the ground used to be...
3 subjects commemorated,
3 creators
Temple Bar - Anne of Denmark
EC4, Paternoster Square
We found the following at Discovering Dickens "An 18th-century account of it, from Harrison’s New and Universal History, Description and...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Novello's printing works - music
W1, Hollen Street
These reliefs are high up, at either end of the building. Not really memorials so normally we would not have collected these lovely cheru...
1 subject commemorated
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