Engineer and politician. Born Derby. He saw the potential of refrigeration and developed equipment that was used extensively both on land and on ships. Knighted by Queen Victoria in 1891 he funded three statues of her: in Newcastle under Lyme, Derby and at Blackfriars, all based on a marble original erected in India. Died at the St Pancras Hotel, London while on a business trip.
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Sir Alfred Seale Haslam
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Queen Victoria statue - Blackfriars
{On the front of the plinth in gilded lettering:} Victoria R.I. 1896 {for "Vi...
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Lord Brock
Surgeon. Born Russell Claude Brock at 840 Old Kent Road, London. While working in America he developed an interest in thoracic surgery. He pioneered several new techniques, including open-heart sur...
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A M Tamosius Esq.
Alwin Martin Tamosius was born in February 1951 in the United States of America and qualified as an attorney in Illinois. In 1986 he married Sarah J. Winn in the Epping Forest registration distric...
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Ifor Williams
At Annual report of the Royal Northern Hospital : 1946, in a "SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS" we found reference to "Capt. Ifor Williams’ Endowment Fund". Possibly the son of the Welsh scholar Sir Ifor ...
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