Person    | Male  Born 25/12/1730  Died 16/5/1795

Thomas Sainsbury

Lord Mayor. Grocer of Ludgate Hill, Bowyer, Alderman of Billingsgate and Governor of the Fellowship Porters in 1786. Came from Wiltshire. Died at Newcourt House, Devon. His tomb is at St Mary's, Market Lavington.

Unrelated to the family who created the current Sainsbury supermarkets, as far as we can tell.

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Thomas Sainsbury

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Fellowship Porters Hall

This Hall was built Anno Domimi MDCCLXXXVI {1786} The Right Honourable Thomas...

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West India Docks

West India Docks

A series of three docks on the Isle of Dogs. Their construction was largely the responsibility of Robert Milligan, who had managed his family's Jamaica sugar plantations. He became outraged at loss...

Place, Commerce

1 memorial
John Stephen

John Stephen

Founder of Carnaby Street as world centre for men's fashion in the 1960s. From Glasgow. The V&A hold his archive.

Person, Commerce, Craft / Design, Scotland

1 memorial

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Dulwich College

Dulwich College

SE21, Gallery Road

The original buildings of Dulwich College, founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn as a school and almshouses. The Almshouses continue in use b...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Blanche Esther Barnett

Blanche Esther Barnett

Blanche Esther Berliner was born on 4 November 1876 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, the eldest of the three children of Berman Berliner (1848-1913) and Helen Harriet Benjamin Berliner née Thoemin (1...

Person, Benefactor

1 memorial