Architect. Born Exeter. Knight was a captain in the Bloomsbury Rifles, which probably has something to do with the commission he was given to design their Drill Hall in 1882-3. Later he became an Honorary Major.
1891 - 1901 he lived at 7 Downe Terrace, Richmond Hill. Died at West Ham Union Infirmary, Leytonstone,
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Samuel Knight
This corner stone was laid by Lt Colonel S. Richards, commanding Bloomsbury R...
Born Edward John May. Estate Architect at Bedford Park 1880 - 1885. Died Chislehurst. From the Bedford Park panel: "E. J. May was the last pupil of Decimus Burton before joining Shaw’s practice as...
Architect and furniture designer. He studied at Bauhaus, and was initially recognised for his so-called 'bicycle-handlebar' inspired tubular steel furniture. He moved to London to escape from Nazi ...
Pronounced Lez-ness. Founded by Richard de Lucy, as a penance for his role in the murder of Thomas Becket. It never grew to any great size, and was closed by Cardinal Wolsey under a licence to supp...
Architect. Born Edinburgh. Returned from a Grand Tour to London in 1759. Won the competition to build Blackfriars Bridge, including the approach roads from the north and the south, each with a squa...
Alice Louise Collard was born in 1865 in Hackney, the daughter of Charles Stone Collard (1838-1923) and Caroline Sophia Collard née Roberts (1842-1872). She was baptised in the parish of West Hackn...
This school started on two floors of the Church’s Vestry House in Cosmo Place. It was then housed in two nearby purpose-built properties, both now listed, and both now thought to be private residen...
Born Kassel, now in Germany. Aged 15 joined the Austrian army, served in the Napoleonic wars and rose rapidly. His suppression of revolutionaries in Italy and Hungary including flogging women and ...
Originally established as 'The Firefighters Memorial Charitable Trust Fund’ in a Deed dated 21st March 1991, it sought to commemorate the lives of those members of the Fire Service who were killed ...
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