Born Giovanni Maria Emilio in Switzerland, son of Agostino, of the Gatti family. Barrister, with inherited business interests in the theatre and electrical power supply. Westminster councillor from 1906 and Lord Mayor of Westminster, 1911-12. Served in the LCC being Chairman in 1927-8. Died of a heart attack on the Littlestone golf course. His son Jack took over the business.
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Sir John Gatti
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St Katharine Docks
SKDocks gives a brief introduction to the history of the area. A London Inheritance have done their usual thorough job with lots of images. In the 1976 film To the Devil a Daughter Richard Widmark...
4 memorials
Arnold James Burton
See Burtons. The picture shows, left to right: Arnold, Barbara, Stanley, Raymond.
2 memorials
1 memorial
Sydney Simmons
From Parish of Frien Barnet: "... born in Okehampton, Devon ... made a fortune from a patent carpet cleaning process. By 1891, Sydney and his wife Annie were living in Friern Barnet at their house ...
2 memorials
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WW1 memorial - Norway
SE16, St Olav's Square, St Olav's Church
The quotation comes from one of the apocrypha, the Wisdom of Solomon, 3.2. The south face of this monument fronts the road and the insc...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Leysian Mission
From Wesley's Chapel and from Kay: The Leys School was opened in Cambridge in 1875; just two years after non-Anglicans were admitted to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It was intended to...
8 memorials
School Committee
N1, Bletchley Street
Boys is given as the Incumbent and Barclay as the Treasurer. This is an attractive plaque, designed into the building. Pity about the pig...
10 subjects commemorated
Barbara Harmer
The first qualified female supersonic pilot and the first to fly Concorde. Born at the house with the plaque, she was raised in Bognor Regis and left school aged 15 to become a hairdresser but the...
1 memorial
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer. Born as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart at 9 Getreidegasse, Salzburg in modern day Austria. (Amadeus was a sort of nickname). His father, Leopold was a prominent musici...
7 memorials
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