1832 Died 1907

Samuel Bourne Bevington

Categories: Commerce, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration

VD, JP. Son of James Bevington. A member of the Bermondsey leather manufacturing dynasty and a philanthropist. Colonel commanding 3rd Volunteer Battalion The Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment 1884 - 1899. First Mayor of Bermondsey 1900 - 1902.

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Samuel Bourne Bevington

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Bermondsey Library - foundation stone

This public library was erected 1890-1. Commissioners: A. Lafone, MP - Chairm...

Samuel Bevington statue

{Carved on the front of the stone plinth:} Samuel Bourne Bevington VD, JP, 18...

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Bevington fountain

Why (Oh why, oh why) do people chose dark, coloured granite for inscriptions?...

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Bow Fair

Known as the Green Goose fair, it was held on the Thursday after Pentecost. A green goose was a young or mid-summer goose, and also a slang term for a cuckold or a low woman. In 1630, John Taylor, ...

Event, Commerce

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Ahmed Ali Kanoo

He appears in a list of "World's Richest People," Forbes 1996/8 and as a member of the 'Bahrain Monetary Council' in 1965. A tree seems somewhat inadequate.

Person, Commerce, Bahrain

1 memorial

Railtrack

Group, Commerce, Transport

1 memorial

General Letter Office

We did not find the website of The British Postal Museum & Archive terribly helpful whereas The Wargrave Local History Society is far more informative and with reference to the GLO says: "Char...

Building, Commerce

1 memorial

Pilot Officer John Forster Withy

John Forster Withy was born on 25 October 1911 in West Hartlepool, Durham, the younger child of Henry Daubeny Withy (1882-1914) and Emily Edith Withy née Wilson (1879-1932). His birth was registere...

Person, Armed Forces, Commerce

War dead, WW2

1 memorial

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Morley College

This college has its origins in the temperance Royal Victoria Coffee and Music Hall. In 1882, using the back-stage and the dressing rooms of the theatre, Emma Cons introduced Tuesday “penny” lectur...

Group, Education, Social Welfare

3 memorials

St George's Hospital - 1

SW1, Hyde Park Corner, The Lanesborough Hotel

There is no indication as to who erected the plaque, but the fulsome description of the Lanesborough Hotel, suggests that they might have...

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Pewterers Hall

In 1484 the Pewterers Company acquired a site in Lime Street (which they still own) where they built a Hall, completed in 1496. This was destroyed in the Great Fire of London and a more modest sec...

Building, Liveries & Guilds

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