On the Executive Committee for the 1851 Great Exhibition Memorial.
Journal editor and writer.
Born Geneva barracks, Co. Waterford, Ireland. Died 24 Stanford Road, Kensington.
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S Carter Hall
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Great Exhibition and Prince Albert
Designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke. Inaugurated by...
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Claire Rayner
Nurse, journalist, broadcaster, novelist and 'agony aunt'. Born Claire Berenice Chetwynd in London. Her early life was marred by the cruelty of her parents who put her in a psychiatric hospital wh...
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1 memorial
Sir David Low
Cartoonist and caricaturist. Born David Alexander Cecil Low in Dunedin, New Zealand. He worked for several newspapers, before coming to London and joining the 'Star'. In 1927 he moved to the Evenin...
2 memorials
George Lansbury
Born Suffolk. Member of the Poplar Borough Council 1903 - 1940, Mayor 1919 - 20 & 1936 - 37. Member of Parliament, Minister of the Crown, Privy Councillor. Leader of the Labour Party 1932 - 35...
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7 memorials
Beckenham Journal
Newspaper. Started as a 24 page monthly publication costing 1d (about 0.5p). In 1881 it was taken over by Tom William Thornton, who published it weekly. Became a campaigning vehicle which informed ...
1 memorial
Henry White
Edited the Sunday Times, from the first edition in 1822.
1 memorial
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Count Edward Raczynski
Polish statesman, Ambassador to Great Britain. At external site Rafal Heydel-Mankoo writes: A marvellous monocled character (he married for the third time at the age of 99) he held the dubious hon...
1 memorial
W. P. Bruce
CN Co. Wharfinger Sh'ai. Andrew Behan has researched this man: William Peter Bruce was born on 14 October 1892 in Seacombe, Cheshire, the eldest son of Thomas Bruce and Marguirite Jane Bruce née P...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Michael Bond
Writer. Born Newbury. His first book 'A Bear Called Paddington' was published in 1958. There have been 23 Paddington books. Also wrote for adults.
4 memorials
Joseph Hardcastle
Merchant and evangelical activist. Born Leeds. Came to London in 1766. Good friend of Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect. Co-founder of the London Missionary Society in 1795 and its treasurer for...
1 memorial
Civilian deaths in WW2 - Blitz East London
E1, Hermitage Riverside Memorial Garden
The lettering on the plinth does not look contemporary with the dove sculpture. It has the look of having originally been on a older mem...
4 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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