Engineer with the Metropolitan Railway Company.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
W. Willox, MICE
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Baker Street Station
This plaque is somewhat reticent about its function which is to commemorate t...
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Regent's Canal Company
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L. G. Mouchel & Partners Ltd
Andrew Behan found this company, still existing in 1961. It was an engineering company formed in 1897 by a Louis Gustave Mouchel and incorporated as a limited company in 1908. It specialised in th...
John Dixon
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Colonel George Thomas Landmann
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Manservant brought to London from Ottoman Smyrna by his employer, Daniel Edwards, a dealer in coffee and other goods from the east. Rosée is variously described as being Armenian or from Sicily. Ro...
Lord Jellicoe
Born Southampton. Commander of the fleet and victor at the Battle of Jutland 1916, although he was criticized for his tactics. Governor of New Zealand from 1920 - 1924. Held the title Viscount Broc...
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