Painter. Born Belfast. One of the "Glasgow Boys" he went on to become a successful portrait painter.
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Sir John Lavery
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Sir John Lavery
Greater London Council Sir John Lavery, 1856 - 1941, painter, lived here 189...
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Renate Keeping
Artist. Born Renate Hannah Meyer in Berlin. Her family came as refugees to Britain in 1933. She married fellow artist Charles Keeping.
1 memorial
Donna Reeves
Mosaic artist active in 2009. She is the author of Roman Style: Mosaic Project Book.
1 memorial
Antonio Canaletto
Venetian painter. When the supply of Grand Tourists coming to Venice and buying his paintings dried up due to war, Canaletto decided to come to England. He arrived in 1746 and stayed until 1755, ...
4 memorials
2 memorials
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Also called Coronavirus. The general consensus is that the pandemic originated in Wuhan, China. A Day of Reflection was initiated 2021 by the Marie Curie charity, to be held every year on the firs...
3 memorials
Creekmouth Village
Built in the 1850s by John Bennet Lawes to house the workers in his chemicals factory. Its foundations were unstable, and on the night of 31st January 1953, the village was swamped by the floods wh...
2 memorials
William Craft
Slavery abolitionist. Born in Macon, Georgia. He and his wife Ellen were enslaved and escaped to the north of America. See her page for more details.
2 memorials
Doctor John Fry
General practitioner and medical author. Born Jack Freitag in Lublin, Poland, he emigrated to Britain with his family in 1925. He trained at Guy's Hospital, and in 1947, single-handedly took over a...
2 memorials
London Hippodrome
From Hippodrome Casino: "Originally opened in 1900 by the renowned theatre architect Frank Matcham as a circus variety theatre, the Hippodrome featured a 100,000 gallon tank in which elephants, pol...
6 memorials
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