Lord Mayor in 1925-6. Born Hoxton. Chairman of Pryke & Palmer Ltd, iron and hardware merchants. Member of the governing body of the Irish Society though we could find no immediate Irish heritage at The Peerage. The photograph was taken on the day of the Lord Mayor's Show, 9 November 1925.
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Sir William Robert Pryke
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Police station foundation stone
This stone was laid by the Rt. Hon. Sir William Robert Pryke, Lord Mayor, on ...
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Sir Robert Bellinger
Lord Mayor in 1967. Born Gloucestershire but brought up in Fulham. Left school aged 14 to work hard and go to college in the evenings. In the picture we think Bellinger is the man with the spade.
1 memorial
Gregory de Rokesley
Eight times Mayor of London, 1274 - 1281 and 1285.
1 memorial
Sir Henry Knight
Henry Edmund Knight was born in St Marylebone. 1882-3 the Lord Mayor of London. Sources: Wikitree, Grogono.
1 memorial
James Clarke Lawrence
MP for Lambeth from 1865, and Lord Mayor 1868-9. In 1887 he and his brother Edwin funded a new building in Kensington for the Unitarians, see Essex Street Chapel. His nephew was Frederick Pethick-L...
1 memorial
Sir Frank Green
Businessman and politician. Born in Maidstone. He founded a company of paper merchants. Alderman on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894 and later, Chair. Elected as Lord Mayor of London in 1900.
2 memorials
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Joseph Priestley statue
WC1, Russell Square, 30
The thinker in a cubby-hole effect is enhanced by being shrouded in netting (to keep the pigeons off). August 2017: A letter in The Guar...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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