Person    | Male  Born 1519  Died 1579

Sir Thomas Gresham

Created the Royal Exchange in 1566 where the Gresham family crest, a grasshopper, can be seen. Son of Richard Gresham who was a Lord Mayor of London but Thomas never was.

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Sir Thomas Gresham

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Holborn Viaduct - Gresham

{On a granite plaque below the statue:} Sir Thomas Gresham, born c.1519, die...

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Sir Thomas Gresham - Old Broad Street

In a house on this site lived Sir Thomas Gresham, 1519 - 1579. The Corporati...

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Sir Thomas Lipton

Sir Thomas Lipton

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1 memorial
Great fire of Tooley Street

Great fire of Tooley Street

From the picture source website: "The fire started in consignment of jute stored at Scovell's warehouse at Cotton's Wharf. This was the biggest of all the peacetime fires in the port: it raged for ...

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2 memorials

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Jeanne Rathbone has posted about O'Casey and his time in Battersea, with extracts from his Autobiography.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
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The plaque was unveiled by his widow Valerie.

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The Kensington and Chelsea Virtual Museum has a photo of the Wilsons' home in Sydney Place captioned with: "During his visits to England Hungarian composer Bela Bartok regularly stayed with Freda a...

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1 memorial
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Sir Simon Milton plaque

W1, Piccadilly, One Eagle Place

Unveiled by Boris Johnson.

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Samaritans at St Stephen Walbrook

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EC4, Walbrook, 39, St Stephen Walbrook church

The small blue plaque is below the Palladian window to the left of our photo. Before 2011 the large blue plaque was where the red informa...

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