Building contractor. Vice-president of the Royal Northern Hospital. Represented Islington in the LCC for nearly thirty years. In about 1930 he purchased a site on Gray’s Inn Road as a gift for the Young Wales Association, a precursor of the London Welsh Association/London Welsh Centre.
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Sir Howell J. Williams
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RNH - St David’s Wing
RNH St David’s Wing for Private Patients This building was provided through ...
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Councillor C. J. Palmer
Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, 1926. Councillor and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926.
Councillor A. C. Jacob
Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1952.
Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount Templewood
Politician. Born London, grandson of John Gurney Hoare, into the banking family, originally Quaker but Catholic by this time. Married Lady Maud Lygon and had their London home at 18 Cadogan Gardens...
Frederick Lockyear
Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was on the building committee for the Abbey Wood branch in 1912.
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Gordon Usmar
Gordon Usmar was born on 26 October 1881 in Chiswick, Middlesex (now Greater London), one of the six children of John Henry Usman (1847-1929) and Agnes Ness Usman née Grant (1851-1946). His birth w...
John Howard - E5
E5, Lower Clapton Road, 157-9, St. Andrews Mansions
This Neo-Tudor block has a better-maintained twin on the other side of the road to the right. The plaque is on the bricks between the bas...
Fitzrovia Mural
W1, Tottenham Street, Whitfield Gardens
A montage of scenes, all relevant to the area at the time: construction activities, the Post Office tower, an angry cat, a TV screen adve...
Henry Watson Fowler
Lexicographer, grammarian and schoolteacher. Born at Tonbridge, Kent. He taught at Fettes College in Edinburgh and Sedbergh School in Yorkshire. Best remembered for 'A Dictionary of Modern English ...
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