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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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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Richard Rieser
From World of Inclusion: "Richard Rieser is the managing director of World of Inclusion Ltd and is an expert disabled international equality trainer, consultant, film maker and writer and teacher."...
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Sir Arthur Crosfield
Wealthy soap magnate and Liberal MP for Warrington in Cheshire. Married Domini Elliadi, a Greek tennis champion and millionairess, and in 1912 they bought Parkfield in Highgate from Walter Scrimgeo...
Person, Benefactor, Industry, Politics & Administration, France, Greece
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Bill Brandt
Photographer. Born in Hamburg, Germany (although he encouraged the belief that he was born in south London). Moved to London in 1933 and began documenting all levels of society. He became a special...
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Queen Anne statue, St Paul's
EC4, St Paul's Churchyard
The 4 female figures around the base represent: Britannia, France, America, Ireland. It was during Queen Anne's reign that the rebuildin...
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William Johnson Fox
Born Suffolk. 1806 he enrolled in the Independent academy at Homerton, then 'near' London. 1812 converted from Calvinism to Unitarianism. 1817 called to the Unitarian, chapel in Parliament Court,...
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Ministere de la Defense et des Anciens Combattants - France
The equivalent of the UK Ministry of Defence has a special section, named in the Ministry’s title, to deal with Veterans & War Victims – indeed there is a National Office – set up for this very...
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Haberdashers Place - 1802
N1, Pitfield Street
The 1802 stone has clearly been saved from the ruin, and the 1952 plaque modelled on it. Nicely done. The close-up picture was taken fr...
1 subject commemorated
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