Politician. He was elected to the common council of the City of London, later becoming a deputy alderman and lieutenant of the City. He was elected to parliament for Rochester in 1906, losing the seat in the January 1910 general election, but regaining it in the election in December of the same year. Created Baron Rochester in 1931.
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Sir Ernest Lamb
{Beneath the 'bridge mark' of the Bridge House Estates and above the City of ...
Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1897-1923. Honorary Associate in the Order of St John. John MacLean Carvell was born on 20 August 1856, ...
Person, Community / Clubs, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Extremely wealthy man, grandson of the first duke. Nick-named Bendor, a "jovial" reference to a lost symbol on their coat of arms (go read Wikipedia if this sort if thing interests you). Had a 1...
Born Belgium. The family moved to London in 1842 and his father established De Keyser's Royal Hotel on the site of what is now Unilever House. The son joined the business and the hotel became the l...
Person, Commerce, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration, Belgium
One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851.
In 1819 upper warden of the Drapers' Company and Governor of the Queen Elizabeth College Almshouses in Greenwich.
Born at Fieldhead, in the parish of Birstal, not far from Leeds, Yorkshire. Emigrated to US in 1794. Died Northumberland, Pennsylvania. Chemist. Discovered oxygen. Had a stutter all his life. Inve...
960 yards (878 metres) long, designed by James Morgan, built over the three years 1815 to 1818. Caroline's Miscellany has a good post.
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