Businessman and historian. Born 25 Tottenham Place. 1864 joined A & F Pears as a bookkeeper and then married F. Pears's eldest daughter the next year.
Historian of Hampstead, author of the 3 volume 1912 'Annuls of Hampstead'. Chairman in Pears, the soap manufacturers. Referred to as "the father of modern advertising" he was responsible for using the Bubbles picture in a Pears advertising campaign. The picture source website gives the details.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Thomas. J. Barratt
On this site stood the house Bell Moor where the historian of Hampstead, Thom...
At 74 - 75 St Martin's Lane. Mentioned in Thackeray's "Vanity Fair".
Under the direction of Prince Albert the profits of the 1851 Great Exhibition were used to purchase land in South Kensington for cultural and educational use. Most of the northern half was, 1861-88...
Antiquarian booksellers at 84 Charing Cross Road, an address made famous through the book by Helene Hanff.
Public house popular with London's Bohemian set in the 1930s, as were all the pubs in Fitzrovia, and beyond. Customers including George Orwell, Dylan Thomas, Edwin Muir and Humphrey Jennings were k...
The original Jubilee Market, to the left of this Jubilee Market Hall, was erected in 1904.
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