Chairman of the Wanstead District Urban Council in 1897.
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W. G. Nelson
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Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in Wanstead
The Latin quotation is interesting. It is from the Bible, Proverbs 3;16, and...
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Councillor Sadashivrao Nanasaheb Deshmukh
Sadashivrao Nanasaheb Deshmukh was elected to the London Borough of Camden as a Labour Party candidate in 1990 in the Bloomsbury Ward. He was re-elected to the council in 1994 serving in the South ...
Jim Jones
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
William John Gomm
Recorded on the monument as a Member of Brentford Council in 1909. However, Brentford High Street gives "William John Gomm, Harry’s brother, also died in 1908 …" so it seems that WJG's name on the ...
Swedish Chamber of Commerce
The subject of a London Chamber was first discussed in early 1906, when a number of meetings regarding the arrangement of a Swedish exhibition, led to the establishment of the Swedish Chamber of Co...
John Sparkes
Principal of the Lambeth School of Arts 1858 - 1900. Born as John Charles Lewis Sparkes in Brixton. Began teaching at Lambeth in 1857. Cultivated a special relationship between the school and Doult...
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Alfred Beit
Co-founder and funder (with Sir Julius Wernher) of the Royal School of Mines building. Born Hamburg, learnt the diamond trade in Amsterdam and went to Kimberley where he met Wernher and Cecil Rhod...
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