Alderman, merchant and slave trader. From Cornwall, possibly Landrake. DOB uncertain. A member of the Ironmongers' Company and Lord Mayor, 1685-6. Married but produced no children and his wife predeceased him. His will thus left the bulk of his estate to a number of charities including the founding of the Geffrye almshouses which in 1914 were re-opened as a museum of furniture and furniture-making.
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Sir Robert Geffrye
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Sir Robert Geffrye
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Thomas Challis
Alderman, Lord Mayor of London 1851, chair of the Executive Committee for the Great Exhibition Memorial.Born 92 Fore Street, Cripplegate. Died Baker Street, Enfield. His Lord Mayor's Show was ca...
1 memorial
Sir John Bell, Lord Mayor of London
Lord Mayor of London in 1907.
2 memorials
Sir George Wyatt Truscott
Son of Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott. A printer and a stationer. Knighted in 1902, created the First Baronet Trustcott of Oakleigh, East Grinstead, in 1909. served as Lord Mayor of London 1908-1909. F...
1 memorial
Alderman Michael Savory, Lord Mayor
Lord Mayor in 2005.
2 memorials
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Bishop Brown
SE11, Harleyford Road, Bishop Brown Memorial Building, St Anne's Catholic Settlement
William F. Brown, Bishop of Pellla, born 1862, died 1951.
1 subject commemorated
Charles Shannon
Charles Haslewood Shannon. Lithographer and painter. Born Lincolnshire. Met his life partner, Charles Ricketts, in 1882. See there for more about their life and work together. 1929 Shannon suffere...
1 memorial
Prince of Wales pub, Mackenzie Road
144 Mackenzie Road. This photo dates from the 1930s. Destroyed by a WW2 V2 rocket.
1 memorial
Barry Jackson
President of The Royal College of Surgeons of England in October 2000.
1 memorial
Teddington Studios
Former film and television studios. Originally Henry Chinnery of Weir House allowed filmmakers to use his greenhouse. Dedicated studios were built in the 1910s and were expanded and renamed. By th...
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