Cricketer. Born Yorkshire. Played as an opening batsman for Yorkshire 1934-55, and for England in 79 Test matches 1937 -55. Set a record in 1938 for the highest individual innings in a Test match, scoring 364 runs against Australia. Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack described him as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.
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Sir Leonard Hutton
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Sir Leonard Hutton - diagram
We assume that if one added all the digits together the total would be 364 ru...
Sir Leonard Hutton - plaque
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Queen's Park Rangers Football Club
Formed from the merger of the St Jude's and Christchurch Rangers football teams. The name derives from the fact that most of the players came from the Queen's Park area of London. They have played ...
1 memorial
Lawn tennis
Invented, developed and patented by Wingfield. The Wimbledon championships began in 1877 and are the world's oldest tennis tournament.
1 memorial
Prince Monolulu
Horse racing tipster. Born as Peter Carl Mackay in what are now the US Virgin Isles, into a horse-breeding family, though his story was that he came from Africa, via an interesting narrative inclu...
1 memorial
Mick the Miller
Greyhound. Born in Killeigh, Ireland. In a career of only three years, he won 61 races, (nineteen of them in a row), including two English Greyhound Derbys. His winning streak ended after suffering...
1 memorial
People's Palace
Proposed by Walter Besant, the first People's Palace was built by the Beaumont Trustees, ‘Unitarian philanthropists’, to replace Beaumont's Philosophical Institution which had been in Beaumont Squa...
3 memorials
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Brian Holt
Aged 62 Holt had worked as a porter at Mile End Hospital for 40 years. He had been commuting by bike the short journey of about a mile from his Stepney for just over a year in order to get fit. Th...
1 memorial
Sir Ernest George - SE1
SE1, Bartholomew Street, 17
This street was first called Portland Place and George was born at no. 9, so we guess the street got renumbered as well as renamed. By 1...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Samuel Palmer
W8, Douro Place, 6
Samuel Palmer, 1805 - 1881, artist, lived here, 1851 - 1861. Greater London Council
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Sir Osbert Sitwell
Born 3 Arlington Street. Writer, famed for his collaborations with his sister Edith and brother Sacheverell. He wrote the libretto for Sir William Walton’s oratorio, Belshazzar’s Feast. Died Monteg...
3 memorials
Thomas Daniell
W8, Earl's Terrace, 12 & 14
In our photo Daniell's plaque on number 14 is nearest the camera.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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