John Douglas Slim, son of General Slim. 2nd viscount. 1944 joined the army. 1971 made President of the Burma Star Association.
His Wikipedia page gives details of his life and confirms that he died, aged 91 years, on 12 January 2019.
John Douglas Slim, son of General Slim. 2nd viscount. 1944 joined the army. 1971 made President of the Burma Star Association.
His Wikipedia page gives details of his life and confirms that he died, aged 91 years, on 12 January 2019.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Viscount John Slim
Designed by Liam O'Connor as a reduced-scale version of Lutyens' monument at ...
Designed by architect Chris Roche. The railway sleepers and track, symbolic o...
Social reformer, OBE, JP. Born 17 Princelet Street. (The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has "19" but perhaps the street was renumbered when it was renamed from Princes to Princelet Street....
Lord Mayor in 1981-2. Alderman on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994. A guest on Desert Island Discs in 1982 - at the picture source you can listen to his choices.
Politician. Born Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana). His family emigrated to England in 1963, where he worked as a railway clerk and telephonist before be...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, South America
Painter, sculptor, photographer and suffragette. Born Norah Veronica Lyle-Smyth in Cheshire. She was befriended by Sylvia Pankhurst and accompanied her on a speaking tour around Europe. She finance...
Person, Art, Gender Issues, Photography, Politics & Administration, Sculpture, Ireland
Inscriptions for Beresford Square and Woolwich Market are on opposite sides of the arch.
Mine host of the Windsor Castle pub in 1990. Distinguished member of the Handlebar Club since 2007.
To honour the memory of David Ricardo, 1772 - 1823 UCL Department of Economics, founded 1828. Unveiled during the Econometric Society W...
Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania. Born in the Liberty of the Tower. After studying law, he spent several years in Ireland managing his father's estates. During this time he converted to Qu...
Traditions vary but one is that Mary was the daughter of John Overs, a very successful Thames ferryman in the tenth century. She gave her inherited wealth to fund a convent which became St Mary Ov...