Close friend of King James I. Dutch Ambassador to the court, 1609-24. 1602–3 Elizabeth granted him a house in South Lambeth where he lived until his death. From this plan we think this house was about where Vauxhall Grove now is. In 1620, having made money in England, he, founded almshouses, in what is now Wandsworth Road, for seven poor women, leaving their support as a charge on his property by will of 1625.
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Sir Noel Caron
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Caron almshouses
At about the time that Evans gave the land for these almshouses he was confin...
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Bernhard Baron
Tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist. Born in what is now Belarus. His father took him to the United States when young; and there, after working at a tobacco factory, he began making the newly p...
1 memorial
Julia Minet
Donor of a mosaic to the Red Cross Garden. She belonged to a public-spirited family of landlords, who funded a library, church and park (Myatt's Fields) for their own tenants in the Camberwell area...
1 memorial
Mary Overie
Traditions vary but one is that Mary was the daughter of John Overs, a very successful Thames ferryman in the tenth century. She gave her inherited wealth to fund a convent which became St Mary Ov...
1 memorial
Mothers Arms
A day nursery set up by Sylvia Pankhurst's suffragettes, giving mothers of working age the opportunity to go out and earn money. It occupied the former Gunmakers Arms public house. This photo, tak...
1 memorial
David Greig
A chain of grocery shops across north London. Faded London have more details and some photos of a splendid shop in Atlantic Road SW9.
3 memorials
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George Bentham
SW1, Wilton Place, 25
George Bentham, 1800 - 1884, botanist, lived here, 1864 - 1884. Greater London Council
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Lord Duncan-Sandys
Politician. Born Edwin Duncan Sandys at the Manor House, Sandford Orcas, Dorset. He entered parliament in 1935, the same year that he married Diana, the daughter of Winston Churchill. He served in ...
1 memorial
Norwegian WW2 gratitude
W2, Hyde Park
A large piece of pre-Cambrian granite mounted on three smaller stones, which give it a rather comical stance.
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Barber Beaumont - information plaque
E1, Mile End Road, The People's Palace Foyer, Queen Mary University of London
This information plaque is giving the provenance of the immense slab of information about Beaumont to its left.
4 subjects commemorated
3 memorials
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