Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading was a Royalist commander in the English Civil War. Born Norfolk. Served Charles I loyally and, when the cause was lost, retired to Maidstone.
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Sir Jacob Astley
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Chelsea Pensioner statue
Commissioned by the Royal Hospital Chelsea to commemorate the Second Millenni...
Other Subjects
Lieutenant Algernon Hyde Villiers, BA
Algernon Hyde Villiers was born on 1 February 1886 at 55, Cadogan Place, London, SW1, the youngest son of the five children of the Right Honourable Sir Francis Hyde Villiers, PC, CB, GCMG, GCVO (18...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
W. Lampkin
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Lieutenant Bernard Henry Gilbert Shaw
Bernard Henry Gilbert Shaw was born on 11 October 1893 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, the second of the ten children of the Reverend Edward Domett Shaw (1860-1937) and Agnes Shaw née Gilbey ...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sir Francis Beaufort
Admiral and hydrographer (map making for sailors). Developed the Beaufort Scale (for winds) in 1805. Born Co. Meath, Ireland. He kept journals, written in code, and these reveal that, as a widower ...
1 memorial
F. F. Baker
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial