Chairman of the Savoy Group 1948 - 1984 and Managing Director 1941 - 1979. Lord Mayor of London in 1973. Born 62 Esmond Road, Acton into a theatrical family. Credentials: GBE CVO D Litt, JP. Died at 8a Wellington Place, Westminster.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Hugh Wontner
Commemorated ati
D'Oyly Carte armillary sphere
The memorial is in the form of an equatorial armillary sphere. Although the m...
Temple Bar - Temple Bar Trust
There are 3 inscribed stones laid into the pavement under Temple Bar. They co...
Temple Bar - Theobalds Park
This plaque marks the site of Temple Bar designed by Sir Christopher Wren, th...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Sir Hugh Wontner
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1500th tree in the City
Tilla platyphyllos (broad leaved lime) planted by The Right Hon. The Lord May...
Other Subjects
Sir Peter Studd
Lord Mayor in 1971. Excelled at cricket in his youth. In 1967, while Studd was Alderman Sheriff of the City of London, the 1831 London Bridge which had been sold to Arizona was installed in its n...
Charles Cheers, Baron Wakefield of Hythe CGE, LLD
Charles Cheers Wakefield was born and raised in Liverpool. (Cheers was his mother's maiden name). Became an oil-broker, founding his own firm in 1899, C.C. Wakefield & Co. later Wakefield Oil C...
Person, Commerce, Lord Mayor, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration
Sir George Waterman
Lord Mayor of London 1671-2. Son of a Southwark vintner. A wholesale ironmonger. The picture source has some information about him and his family. Involved in the slave trade.
Alderman Sir Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale
Sheriff of the City of London, 1894. Born Cornhill. Lord Mayor 1901-2. MP for the City of London from 1900 to 1906. Married Beatrice Eliza Bower Holdsworth in 1873. Our correspondent, Alicia Col...