Coal merchant and co-founder of Rotary International.
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Silvester Schiele
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Rotary Armillary
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Albert E. Reed
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John Lewis
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Thomas Davies
The bookseller and author who, in 1763, introduced Dr Samuel Johnson to James Boswell at his house in Russell Street. He took to bookselling after failing as an actor.
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