First Prime Minister of Great Britain. An early political victim of satire, the target of Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, Hogarth and Thomas Gay. Walpole responded by setting up the office of the Lord Chamberlain to vet all new plays before performance. This censorship remained in place until the office was abolished in 1968. Father of Horace.
Born Norfolk. Died London.
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Sir Robert Walpole
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Fountain Tavern
In this court in the 18th century stood the Fountain Tavern where the politic...
Robert & Horace Walpole
Greater London Council Sir Robert Walpole, 1676 - 1745, Prime Minister, and ...
St Margaret's new tower - 1736
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County Borough of West Ham
Former outer London borough. It included Plaistow, West Ham, Stratford, Canning Town, Silvertown and the current Borough of Newham west of Green Street. It was amalgamated with other areas to form ...
5 memorials
Sir George Reeves-Smith
Vice Chairman and Managing Director of the Savoy Hotel Ltd, 1900 - 1941.
1 memorial
Institute of Taxation
In 1932 the Institute was formally incorporated and also created the first widely accepted professional qualification in the subject. In 1994 it was granted a Royal Charter.
1 memorial
Reinhard Heydrich
Nazi official. Born Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich in Halle an der Saale. An architect of the Holocaust, he is regarded as one of the most extreme members of the Nazi regime, with even Hitler call...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Czechoslovakia, Germany
1 memorial
Joseph Cotton
Joseph Cotton FRS was a mariner and merchant, a director of the East India Company, Chairman of the East India Dock Company and deputy-master of Trinity House. Born St Albans. Briefly in the Roya...
1 memorial
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W2, Westbourne Grove, 26, HBA
The Bayswater Athenaeum was built in 1863 by architect Arthur Billing of Newman and Billing. The name was originally inscribed in the pan...
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