The bookseller and author who, in 1763, introduced Dr Samuel Johnson to James Boswell at his house in Russell Street. He took to bookselling after failing as an actor.
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Thomas Davies
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Boswell and Johnson
Greater London Council In this house, occupied by Thomas Davies, bookseller,...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
Finlays
From Finlays we learn that: James Finlay (d. 1790) began his career in Glasgow in the family textile business selling cotton goods. He moved into embroidered muslins and also manufacture. His son K...
Group, Commerce, Food & Drink, Gardens / Agriculture, Africa, Scotland, Sri Lanka
1 memorial
General Letter Office
We did not find the website of The British Postal Museum & Archive terribly helpful whereas The Wargrave Local History Society is far more informative and with reference to the GLO says: "Char...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Carrington & Co
John Bodman Carrington was a renowned British silversmith and jeweller, known for his exceptional craftsmanship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the 1870s, he worked in the Regent Stre...
0 memorials
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Rifleman Frederick Hayter
Frederick Hayter was born in 1897 in Islington, London, the fifth of the seven children of Frank Hayter (1858-1939) and Annie Hayter née Shepherd (1861-1947). His birth was registered in the 1st qu...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Farm Lane - Number 72
SW6, Farm Lane, 72
72 Farm Lane This building was constructed over market gardens in 1889 as two-storey stabling for the London Road Car Company, operators ...
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