Simon de Montfort, having seized power from King Henry III, called a Parliament with a wider representation catchment than the usual knights and barons; he summoned representatives of cities and boroughs. This was merely to widen his support but it was also the beginnings of what later became the House of Commons.
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Simon de Montfort's Parliament of 1265
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Westminster Hall - Simon de Montfort
Queen Elizabeth II here replied to addresses presented by both Houses of Parl...
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Paul Head
Paul Andrew Charles Head. He was the son of Charles R. Head (b.1933) and Mary I. Head née Lamonby (b.1933) and his birth was registered in the Newbury, Berkshire, registration district. In Octobe...
1 memorial
S. G. Porter
Alderman on the Committee for the 1901 Shoreditch Town Hall Extension.
1 memorial
Samuel Walters
Co-Warden of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers in 1724.
1 memorial
Baroness Gaitskell
Politician. Born Dora Creditor near Riga, Latvia, and known as Anna. Her family emigrated to Britain in 1903. After her first marriage failed, she met and married the future Labour Party leader Hug...
1 memorial
Lord Mount-Temple
Born in London as Wilfrid William Ashley. Politician who entered parliament in 1906. As minister of transport, he introduced one-way systems and roundabouts to London and other large cities. Elevat...
1 memorial
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George Bernard Shaw
Born Dublin. Socialist, member of the Fabian Society. Plays include: Saint Joan, Major Barbara and Pygmalion on which My Fair Lady is based. Didn't like his first name, "Don't George me!" so is oft...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Theatre, Ireland
5 memorials
Edmund Nuttall Limited
Construction company with origins in the Netherlands.
1 memorial
Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road
The church moved here at the end of the 19th century from a Knightsbridge site, where the French Embassy now is. The British Library have a wonderful zoomable street-scape showing Knightsbridge w...
1 memorial
Lady Lucy Gilbert
Lucy Agnes Turner was born on 14 November 1847 at The Grove, Yoxford, Suffolk, (now called Grove Park, Yoxford, Saxmundham, IP17 3HX), the youngest of the seven children of Thomas Metcalfe Blois Tu...
1 memorial
London Bridge
Four stone bridges have spanned the Thames at this point. The first was built in about 1210 and lasted right through the medieval period. This was the one that had the spikes and is shown in some d...
25 memorials
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