Person    | Male  Born 13/10/1951 

Sir Ken Olisa, OBE, CStJ, FRSA, FBCS

Sir Kenneth Aphunezi Olisa is a businessman and philanthropist. The first black Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London. He founded and led the AIM-listed technology merchant bank Interregnum and now leads Restoration Partners. Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and has served and serves on several boards of philanthropic, educational and regulator organisations. With his wife he endowed the Olisa Library at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Born Nottingham. Member of the Windrush Commemoration Committee.

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Sir Ken Olisa, OBE, CStJ, FRSA, FBCS

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National Windrush monument

Unveiled on Windrush day in 2022. The full poem is available at Laura Serrant.

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

Writer, philosopher and feminist before her time. Born Primrose Street, Spitalfields. Her radical book "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792) in which she described marriage as "legal prostitu...

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Caroline Martineau

Caroline Martineau

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St Aloysius' College
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Hospital of St Anthony

Hospital of St Anthony

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Building, Education, Religion, Social Welfare

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Cardinal Griffin School / Blessed John Roche Catholic School

Cardinal Griffin School / Blessed John Roche Catholic School

British History Online provides: The school was designed by David Stokes and was constructed 1950-2. The buildings were placed on the northern half of the site and the southern half was landscaped....

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