Civil engineer. Son of Thomas and Mary Thornycroft. Born Rome. Studied and began work in Glasgow. Then studied at the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at South Kensington, while at the same time establishing a shipyard at Chiswick, financially assisted by his parents. Eventually the business was taken over by his eldest son who moved it to Southampton. Thornycroft went in semi-retirement to the Isle of Wight where he worked on surface-skimming hull designs that were used in WW1. His eldest daughter had been one of the first women to become a member of the Naval School and she assisted him with this work. He died on the Isle of Wight.
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Sir John Isaac Thornycroft
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Boadicea/Boudicca/Boudica
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Sarn Baggett
Built the ghost bike for his working colleague at Mosquito Bikes in Essex Road, from spare, otherwise unusable, parts.
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Edward Harvist Trust
Charity that awards grants to organisations in the London boroughs of Camden, Brent, Barnet, Harrow and Westminster, to assist with one-off projects that will benefit residents in the boroughs. We ...
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Edward Charles Grenfell
1st Baron St Just. At Harrow, West Acre House, 1884-8. Banker and politician. Governor of Harrow School 1922-41. Director of the Bank of England 1905-40.
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Hilaire Belloc
SW10, Cheyne Walk, 104
Greater London Council Hilaire Belloc, 1870-1953, poet, essayist and historian, lived here, 1900-1905.
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