Group    From 1965 

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The borough was formed in 1965 by the merging of the separate former boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea. It was originally planned to call it just Kensington, but Chelsea was added after local protests.

The vestries of Kensington and of Chelsea were precursors to this body.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

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Avondale Park

This park was acquired and laid out by the Vestry of Kensington with financia...

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Dovehouse Green - blue plaques

{Top plaque:} To celebrate the silver jubilee of Elizabeth II 1952-1977 and ...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

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Abbotsbury Gate

Abbotsbury Gate - Holland Park Made possible by the bequest of the late Miss ...

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Albert Bridge - troops

In 1831 the Broughton Suspension Bridge collapsed as a troop of 74 men marche...

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Arthur Stanley Wint

Arthur Stanley Wint 1920 - 1992, RAF pilot,doctor & diplomat, gold medal ...

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Boy David

Commissioned to create a WW1 memorial to the Machine Gun Corps Derwent Wood p...

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Campden Hill Square

Campden Hill Square was laid out by Joshua Flesher Hanson in 1826. Gates and ...

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Cecil J. R. MacFadden, OBE, MD

Cecil J. R. MacFadden, OBE, MD

Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1903-1930. Commander in the Order of St John.

Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Charles Wager

Charles Wager

Born Rochester, Kent to a naval family. He entered the navy, rose to Rear-Admiral and was knighted 1709. Entered Parliament in 1713 and worked the rest of his life in the Board of Admiralty. Known ...

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sir Hugh Wontner

Sir Hugh Wontner

Chairman of the Savoy Group 1948 - 1984 and Managing Director 1941 - 1979. Lord Mayor of London in 1973. Born 62 Esmond Road, Acton into a theatrical family. Credentials: GBE CVO D Litt, JP. D...

Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

4 memorials
Admiral of the Fleet, Sir James Alexander Gordon, GCB

Admiral of the Fleet, Sir James Alexander Gordon, GCB

Naval officer.  Born Aberdeenshire.  Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1853 until his death.  75 years in the navy, he was possibly the model for C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower.  

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Scotland

1 memorial
V. K. Krishna Menon

V. K. Krishna Menon

Politician who campaigned for India's independence from Britain. Lived in London for 24 years. Member of the Theosophical Society. Born Karela, India. Studied at the LSE. He worked for the publishe...

Person, Nationalism, Paranormal, Politics & Administration, India

2 memorials

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Jane Roselyn Corteen

Jane Roselyn Corteen

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Lieutenant Arthur Gilbey Shaw

Lieutenant Arthur Gilbey Shaw

Arthur Gilbey Shaw was born on 15 February 1895 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, the third of the ten children of the Reverend Edward Domett Shaw (1860-1937) and Agnes Shaw née Gilbey (1867-1944)....

Person, Armed Forces, Belgium

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Corporation of the City of London

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...

Group, Commerce, Politics & Administration

181 memorials
Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy

Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy

Secretary of Married Women’s Property Committee, Secularist and sexual radical, lived in ‘free love’ union with Benjamin John Elmy (1838 - 1906) who worked closely with her on the campaigns. Only w...

Person, Gender Issues

1 memorial