Coal merchant and co-founder of Rotary International.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Silvester Schiele
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Rotary Armillary
An armillary (or astrolabe) is a model comprising rings showing the positions...
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Hugh Mason
Records are sparse but it seems Mason owned a shop in St James's Market and in 1734 was appointed as porter at "His Majesty's Royal Palace of Somerset House". See William Fortnum for a few more wor...
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Greenwich Workshop for the Blind
The London Metropolitan Archive holds records for the Greenwich Workshop for the Blind, 1875-1960. and explains: "The Greenwich Workshop for the Blind, began as the Workshop for the Blind of Kent,...
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Harndale Group
Harndale Shipmanagement Services Limited was one of several companies formed by Keshava Raghuveer and Harini Raghuveer. It was incorporated on 31 January1984 with a company registration number of 0...
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Cornhill market
Cornhill was apparently the only market allowed to be held after noon in the 14th century. Stow reports Cornhill holding a corn-market (not surprisingly) but also old clothes being sold there.
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Anglo-Chilean Society
Fromed at the Chilean Embassy at 3 Hamilton Place. In 2008 The British Chilean Chamber of Commerce based in London merged with The Anglo Chilean Society.
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John Compton
Organ builder. Born in Newton Burgoland, Leicestershire. He set up business in Nottingham and moved to London, eventually establishing a factory in North Acton. Many Compton organs were installed i...
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