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S. Burdett-Coutts

S. Burdett-Coutts

Chairman of Governors of the Burdett-Coutts and Townshend Foundation School in 1924 and still alive and laying plaques in 1953. Nephew to William Burdett-Coutts.

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S. Burdett-Coutts

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Burdett-Coutts School

These improvements were carried out with trust funds in memory of the late Ri...

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Chauncy Hare Townshend Schools - war damage

This plaque is on the central cotagey-looking building which looks undamaged....

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Cllr. Maurice Heaster

Cllr. Maurice Heaster

Conservative councillor. Mayor of Wandsworth in 1985. Chair of the Wandsworth Policy and Finance Committee 1994. Awarded an OBE in 2010 when he had "been a councillor for 40 years, and deputy leade...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
John Roland Phillips

John Roland Phillips

Barrister at law. Involved in the reviving of the Society of Cymmrodorion in 1873. Advertised in The Welshman in 1875. Appointed first stipendiary magistrate at the West Ham court house in 1881. I...

Person, Law, Politics & Administration, Wales

1 memorial
Thomas Haynes Parker

Thomas Haynes Parker

Churchwarden in Clerkenwell in 1845. Insurance papers for 1835 list a Thomas Haynes Parker at 25 Winyatt Street, Goswell Street, "paper stainer". By 1836 he has become "gent" with another property ...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Dr Owen Lankester

Dr Owen Lankester

Chairman of the East End Maternity Hospital, 1902 - 1933.  His obituary in Medical News 6 January 1934 tells us:  Born Alfred Owen Lankester, brother to (the later) Sir Ray Lankester.  Died at home...

Person, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Councillor Sam Elsbury

Councillor Sam Elsbury

Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, 1926. Councillor and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926. Probably married to Rebecca.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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Lord Frederick Leighton

Lord Frederick Leighton

W14, Holland Park Road, 12

London County Council Lord Leighton, 1830 - 1896, painter, lived and died here.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
David Allan

David Allan

1st Queen's RWS

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Jewish Daily Post and Express

Jewish Daily Post and Express

The building's listing entry says: “Having been established in 1926, the Jewish Daily Post ceased circulation in August 1935 shortly after the refurbishment.”  Elsewhere we have read that the Jewis...

Media, Journalism / Publishing

1 memorial
Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe

Playwright and poet, for definite. Spy? Atheist? Homosexual? Shakespeare? Baptized on 26th February at St George's Church, Canterbury. Educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His plays inclu...

Person, Espionage, Poetry, Theatre

3 memorials
James Selby

James Selby

NW1, Edgware Road, 7

Bertram Mills had died 8 months before the plaque was unveiled. The Winnipeg Tribune of 7 January the following year contains a vivid de...

2 subjects commemorated, 4 creators