Born Bedford. Inherited the title from his father, the first Viscount, in 1865. Was killed in a collision with a horse-drawn carriage and while all the family and staff were away at the funeral his ghost was photographed in the family library. We kid you not - here's the photo.
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Viscount Combermere, Wellington Stapleton-Cotton
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Dairy Supply Company - Directors
These panels are above a door which we guess leads to the offices above with ...
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Marley's ghost
One of Charles Dickens characters from A Christmas Carol (1843).
1 memorial
Garrick Theatre
Built for W S Gilbert in 1889, the Garrick Theatre has continued to thrive largely on a mixed diet of comedy, comedy-drama and farce. The theatre is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of actor mana...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Sir William Crookes
Chemist, physicist and science journalist. Born 143 Regent Street, presumably in a residential apartment above his father's gentlemen's outfitters shop in the Nash-designed terraces. Worked on spec...
1 memorial
Bram Stoker
Novelist and theatre manager. Born Dublin. Came to London in 1878 with his new wife Florence Balcombe, previously Oscar Wilde's squeeze. Wrote Dracula whilst he was Irving’s acting manager at the ...
3 memorials
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Aldersgate Flame
EC1, Bastion High Walk, Museum of London entrance
2021: Karen Kirkham has kindly written to say "The monument, designed by my late father-in-law R. M. P. Ludlow, was erected in 1990." Th...
5 subjects commemorated,
3 creators
Benjamin James Walker
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Benjamin James Walker was born on 2 August 1960 in Buckinghamshire and his birth was registered in Aylesbu...
1 memorial
Sir Gerald Kelly
W1, Gloucester Place, 117
English Heritage Sir Gerald Kelly, 1879 - 1972, portrait painter lived here, 1916 - 1972.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
1 memorial
The Right Honourable Gerard James Noel, PC, DL, JP
The Honourable Gerard James Noel was born on 28 August 1923, in Barham Court, Teston, Maidstone, Kent, the second of the four children of Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough and 3rd Baron Barham...
1 memorial
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