Person    | Male  Born 1794  Died 1874

Thomas Challis

Thomas Challis

Alderman, Lord Mayor of London 1851, chair of the Executive Committee for the Great Exhibition Memorial.

Born 92 Fore Street, Cripplegate. Died Baker Street, Enfield. His Lord Mayor's Show was cancelled due to the death of the Duke of Wellington.

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Thomas Challis

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Great Exhibition and Prince Albert

Designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke. Inaugurated by...

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John Wilkes

John Wilkes

A champion of English freedom, establishing the campaigning newspaper "The North Briton".  In his 1754 'Essay on Woman' he wrote: 'Life can little more supply than just a few good f**ks and then w...

Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
David Henry Stone

David Henry Stone

Chairman of the managers that ran the 1873-75 changes at Aske’s Hospital. Lord Mayor of London 1874-5.

Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sir Horatio David Davies

Sir Horatio David Davies

Lord Mayor of London (1897), Army officer and businessman. Alderman on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.  Listed on the "opening" plaque as "Lieutt.Col."  He was very successful running a n...

Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Sir Thomas Davies

Sir Thomas Davies

Lord Mayor of London, 1676-7.  Pepys's bookseller.  The first Stationer Lord Mayor, though he had to translate to the Clothworkers to be eligible.  During his mayoralty the erection of the Monument...

Person, Lord Mayor

1 memorial
Sir Robert Bellinger

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.

Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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R. Taylor

R. Taylor

A printer who worked in Red Lion Court in 1816.

Person, Journalism / Publishing

1 memorial
Simon Giles Atlee

Simon Giles Atlee

Simon Giles Atlee was born on 4 May 1971 according to The Times website. He was the younger child of Stephen Richard Atlee (1946-2018) and Christine P. Atlee née Audritt (b.1947), his birth being r...

Person, Photography, Tragedy, Southeast Asia

1 memorial
Firemen Randolph & Skinner

Firemen Randolph & Skinner

WC1, Tavistock Square, Woburn House

This plaque was rededicated to the memory of the two firemen in a ceremony on 16 April 2011.

Civilian war dead | WW2
4 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Metropolitan Railway Company

Metropolitan Railway Company

This was the world's first underground passenger railway which opened from Paddington to Farringdon via Baker Street Station on 10th January 1863. IanVisits has reproduced an Illustrated London Ne...

Group, Transport

7 memorials
Thomas Hulman Kemp

Thomas Hulman Kemp

Extra Assistant 4th Engineer (Refrigeration) on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, And...

Person, Engineering, Tragedy

1 memorial