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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Sir Richard Ford

Sir Richard Ford

Lord Mayor of London. Born and buried at Bexley, Kent.  One of the commissioners sent to Breda to request Charles II to return to England immediately.  Began the construction of The Monument in 167...

Person, Lord Mayor

1 memorial
Sir James Michael Yorrick Oliver

Sir James Michael Yorrick Oliver

James Michael Yorrick Oliver was born on 13 July 1940, his birth being registered in the 3rd quarter of 1940 in the Worthing Registration District, Sussex (now West Sussex). His mother's maiden nam...

Person, Liveries & Guilds, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott

Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott

Lord Mayor of London from 1879 to 1880.  Alderman on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.  His son, George, was Lord Mayor from 1908 to 1909 and was the 1st Baronet Truscott of Oakleigh.

Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

4 memorials
Sir John Whittaker Ellis

Sir John Whittaker Ellis

Alderman and Lord Mayor Of London 1881-2. A dignitary local to Richmond, Byfleet and Petersham.

Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sir Henry Knight

Sir Henry Knight

Henry Edmund Knight was born in St Marylebone. 1882-3 the Lord Mayor of London. Sources: Wikitree, Grogono.

Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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Joe O’Callaghan

Joe O’Callaghan

Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial