Professional cricketer. He laid out the first Lord's cricket ground in Dorset Square in 1787. Born Thirsk, Yorkshire.
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Thomas Lord
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Victor Hugo Watson
Born near the Kennington Oval but his family returned to Yorkshire when he was very young and he saw himself as a Yorkshireman. In 1908 he joined Waddingtons, a printing firm which developed a spe...
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Moshe Weinberger
Wrestling coach. Also known as Moshe Weinberg. Israeli youth champion in wrestling, and also the adult champion for eight years. At the Summer Olympics in Munich, he was murdered by Palestinian ter...
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John Wisden
Cricketer and publisher. Born at Crown Street, Brighton. As a cricketer, he played mainly for Sussex. In 1850 he opened a cricket-equipment business in Leamington Spa and five years later opened a ...
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Olympic Games - 1948
The 1948 Summer Olympics were the first Summer Olympics held since the 1936 Games in Berlin. The second time London had hosted, 1908 being the first. The 1948 Olympics came to be known as the "Aus...
2 memorials
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Sir Bradley Wiggins
Cyclist. Born Bradley Marc Wiggins in Ghent, Belgium where his English mother and Australian father, a professional cyclist, were living at the time. Bradley was brought up in Kilburn/Maida Vale by...
2 memorials
Barry Mason
Cycling activist. He was known for supporting community and environmental projects in Southwark. For a time he managed school building projects for Southwark Council, before becoming manager of Sur...
1 memorial
John Dennis Welch gates
N1, Alford Place, Holy Trinity Church - west side
A. M. D. G. {Ad maiorem Dei gloriam, Latin for For the greater glory of God} These gates are dedicated in loving memory of John Dennis W...
1 subject commemorated
London's Burning!
EC3, Monument Street
The etching seems to be of late 17th century date but, like Discovering London, we cannot find it on the web so cannot name the artist. ...
1 subject commemorated,
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Cromwell Buildings
SE1, Redcross Way
The Prince Regent (later King George IV) had died more than twenty years before the Great Exhibition. They mean the 'Prince Consort', i.e...
4 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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