Law reformer. Born in Frith Street. Solicitor-General 1806. Caroline's Miscellany has done the research on his campaign to reduce the number of crimes with a mandatory death penalty. Kept 2 pet leeches. Suffering intense grief he died by suicide, at 21 Russell Square, a few days after his wife's death.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Samuel Romilly
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Samuel Romilly - Gray's Inn Square
Sir Samuel Romilly, Knt., Solicitor-General 1806, occupied chambers here, 177...
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Alistair David Berkley
Alistair David Berkley was born on 11 April 1959, the eldest of the three children of John Barrie Berkley (1927-2018) and Jean C. Berkley née Blair (b.1930). His birth was registered in the 2nd qua...
1 memorial
E. E. Woods
Alderman in the Borough of Hammersmith in 1948. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man (and found the wonderful photo) : Edward Ernest Woods was born on 13 February 1896 in Chelsea, th...
1 memorial
Sir William Francis Kyffin Taylor
G.B.E., K.C., Master of the Bench, 1905 - 1951, Treasurer of Inner Temple 1926. 1st and last Baron Maenan.
1 memorial
Captain Egerton Lowndes Wright, MC
Egerton Lowndes Wright was born on 15 November 1885 in Lytham, Lancashire, the second of the four children of Henry Lowndes Wright (1854-1940) and Alice Maud Wright née Eckersley (1861-1914). His W...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
John Compton Lawrance, QC, MP
High Court Judge. Came from Lincolnshire. From Plymounth Law Review we learn: "John Lawrance was Conservative MP for South Lincolnshire for ten years, from 1880 to 1890, until his appointment as ...
1 memorial
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Sir John Kirk
WC1, John Street, 32
31-32 John Street is known as John Kirk House and in April 2012 is being converted into apartments, see Banbury Ball.
1 subject commemorated
Union Chapel
N1, Compton Terrace, Union Chapel
The two pastors are Lewis, the first, and, Allon, the one that oversaw the erection of this building. This plaque was probably added sho...
3 subjects commemorated
Stanley Hall & Baths
N19, Junction Road, Boston Arms
Stanley Hall & Baths This building was erected by E. H. Blunt, 1884.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Alan Turing - Hampton
TW12, Hampton High Street, 78, Ivy House
Turing lived here while working at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, on the other side of Bushy Park.
1 subject commemorated
Sophie Fedorovitch
SW3, Bury Walk, 22
Mansion Global's 2020 sales page for this charmer has: ".. former owner .. Sophie Fedorovitch ..occupied the home until her death in 1953...
1 subject commemorated
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