Born William Purdie Treloar at 7 Holland Street, Blackfriars. Joined his father's business Treloar's Carpet Co. Also head of a firm of haberdashers, Treloar and Sons. Lord Mayor of London 1906-7. Known as "The Children's Lord Mayor" he built a hospital for crippled children in Hants. now known as Lord Mayor Treloar Orthopaedic Hospital. And he wrote a diary, Lord Mayor's Diary, 1920.
The Ancestry page is very useful.
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Sir William Treloar
To the glory of God this stone was laid by the Right Honourable Lord Mayor of...
Lord Mayor of London 1934-5. From the Fanmakers: "elected Lord Mayor in 1934 (George V’s Silver Jubilee year), having previously been Master of the Fan Makers in 1917, and Sheriff in 1922; in 1927...
Labour Party Life peer. Lord Mayor 1972-3. Born Southampton. After WW2 joined contractors Trollope & Colls, becoming joint-managing director and chairman in 1963 and retiring in 1968 when the ...
Lord Mayor in 2006.
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.
Robert Gerard Finch was born on 20 August 1944 in Ootacamund, India. (Now frequently known as Ooty but officially called Udhagamandalam, it is a town in the Nilgiri Hills). He was the son of Brigad...
Station Officer - One of two men (with Frederick Mitchell) who gave their lives at Soho Fire Station on 7th October 1940. London Fire Journal gives his name as William Wilson. See Mitchell for som...
The Grand Theatre and Opera House stood on this site 1896 - 1959. Croydon's Heritage
960 yards (878 metres) long, designed by James Morgan, built over the three years 1815 to 1818. Caroline's Miscellany has a good post.
We wonder if erecting this plaque was part of the deal for De La Rue getting Tonga's currency printing business.
A series of books created by the illusrator Cicely Mary Barker. The first one was published in 1923
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