Born at Perton in Staffordshire. His name varies in spelling: Wollaston or Woolaston. In London, apprenticed to the Goldsmiths' Company from 1604 to 1611. Achieved great wealth in the City of London. Lord Mayor of London. Founded the alms-houses in Southwood Lane. Elected a Governor of the free school and chapel of Highgate in 1630 in which he took an active interest. Buried in the old Chapel.
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Sir John Wollaston
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Baron George Allardice Riddell
Newspaper proprietor, The News of the World in particular. Chairman of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, in 1926 when he, together with George Eastman, and Sir Albert Levy, funded the cons...
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Marian Mangini Brown
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Sydney Powell
Former chairman of the Chiswick Parochial Charities.
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citizens and senat of Berlin
Berlin has a mayor and an executive making up the Senat, similar to the Greater London Authority.
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