Group    From /11/1996 

The Equiano Society

Categories: Community / Clubs, History

Founded by Arthur Torrington and Samuel B. King. Its main objective is to publicise and celebrate the life and work of Olaudah Equiano

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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The Equiano Society

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Olaudah Equiano - Tottenham Street

Olaudah Equiano, "The African" (1745 - 1797) abolitionist, lived at this addr...

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Pubs in Time

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Dave Squires

Dave Squires

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John Donovan

John Donovan

Founder of Friern Barnet & District Local History Society. Lived in Friern Barnet between 1966 and 1995.

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1 memorial
Woodstock Road Association

Woodstock Road Association

Woodstock Road is to the west of Finsbury Park, the other side of the railway line, to the south. We can find references to the Association in 2005 and 2011, but nothing more recent. However we mi...

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S. G. Purkis

S. G. Purkis

St Marylebone Borough Engineer and Surveyor in 1965.

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Charles Heathcote

Charles Heathcote

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1 memorial
Dame Sybil Thorndike

Dame Sybil Thorndike

Born Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. Actor. George Bernard Shaw wrote his play Saint Joan with her in mind. Created Dame of the British Empire in 1931. She was married to the actor Sir Lewis Casson. Di...

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3 memorials
Chelsea Temperance Society

Chelsea Temperance Society

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6 memorials
Duchess of Westminster

Duchess of Westminster

As Katherine Caroline Cavendish she married the soon to be Duke of Westminster, when she was 24 and younger than her new husband's eldest son and two of his daughters, all by his first marriage.

Person, Friend / family

1 memorial