Railway engineer, very influential in Argentina where he was Chairman of many railway companies. Excelled at polo as a young man. First Chairman of the Tower Hill Improvement Trust. Our picture comes from a short film showing Holt presenting to the LCC an ambulance donated to the British war effort by the Non-British Employees of two Argentinean railways, the Entre Rios and the Argentine North-Eastern Railway both of which were chaired by Holt.
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Sir Follett Holt, KBE
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Sir Follett Holt
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Thomas Hawksley
Civil engineer, particularly with water projects. Born near Nottingham. Died at home at 14 Phillimore Gardens.
2 memorials
John Romer
Architect and structural engineer. John Henry Romer was born on 13 March 1947 in Kingston-upon-Thames the eldest of the three children of Sydney Gurney Romer (1903-2005) and Dorothy Joan Agnes Rom...
1 memorial
Maxim Gun
The first portable automatic machine gun. In the 1888 photograph the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) is firing with Maxim standing behind.
1 memorial
1 memorial
Henry Watson Dodds
Junior Assisant 4th Engineer on the RMS Titanic. There would appear to some confusion as to the correct name of this man. Some records show him as Renny Dodds, but he can also be found on memorial...
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Henry Clarke
Businessman and politician. He was a coal importer and commission merchant in Gracechurch Street. When the first London County Council elections were held in 1889, he became one of four councillors...
2 memorials
Eva Hubback
Feminist and suffragette. Born Eva Marian Spielman. In 1911 she married Francis Hubback, who was killed in WW1, leaving her with three children. 1916 - 17 director of economic studies at Newnham an...
1 memorial
Somerset House - 1, George III
WC2, Strand, Somerset House - Strand Block
The three central first floor windows of the Strand Block of Somerset House are each topped, below their pediment, with a relief portrait...
1 subject commemorated
Major General Frank Roberts, VC
Major General Frank Crowther Roberts, VC, DSO, OBE, MC. Born Highbury. Served in the Worcestershire Regiment. During the period 22 March/2 April 1918 west of Somme and at Pargny, France, Lieutena...
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Rev. A Walbaum
Founded and then served for 46 years as Honorary Secretary and Chaplain of the German Hospital and was described in "Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain, 1660-1914" as the "soul of the h...
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