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...
Chauncy Hare Townshend Schools - war damage
This plaque is on the central cotagey-looking building which looks undamaged....
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Poplar Rates Rebellion
Tax protest led by George Lansbury supported by the councillors of Poplar Borough Council. On behalf of Poplar, an extremely poor borough, they held back taxes and were taken to court for non-paym...
G. Morris
Co-church warden of St James & St John, Clerkenwell in 1890.
Sam Osborn, FRCS
District Chief Surgeon in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1887-1907. Knight Grace in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
May Day demonstration in Hyde Park, 1890
Paste Tense describes why and how the 1st of May became the International Workers' Day, how the first such day, in 1890, was planned in the United Kingdom, and goes on to describe: "The main demons...
Robert Clayton
Born Northamptonshire. Apprenticed as a scrivener (like a secretary). Entered business and then set up a bank. Made a fortune from his connections with the slave trade and entered politics. Lord Ma...
Person, Lord Mayor, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Race Issues
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William Lovely
W12, Askew Road, 1
A rejected planning application provides some history for the house: "The building dates from pre-1860 and would have formed part of the ...
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