London borough. Formed from the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and much of the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
London borough. Formed from the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and much of the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Wandsworth Council
In 1899 the Battersea Vestry became the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Wandsworth Council
The plaque gives his first names as Reginald Albert in that order. However, h...
A. V. Roe, 1877 - 1958, aircraft pioneer and designer of AVRO aeroplanes, exp...
Battersea Park was re-opened to the public by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh KG KT...
Biograph Theatre opened 1908 as London's first licensed cinema. Originally th...
The structure is a reasonably standard late Victorian drinking fountain, in g...
Doctor of Civil Law, judge, MP, supporter of the campaigns for the abolition of slavery and of capital punishment. Born Berkshire. Died Surrey.
Edward Arthur Last Smith was born on 22 March 1884 in Torquay, Devon, the second of the five children of Edward Last Smith (1856-1937) and Emily Phyllis Smith née Dixon (1863-1936). His father was ...
Youngest and longest-serving Prime Minister, 1812–27, thus overseeing victory in the Napoleonic Wars at the Battle of Waterloo. Home Secretary 1804-06 and 1807-9. Born Westminster. Died at his home...
Patrick Draycott, Master of the Founders Company in 2014.
Archaeologist and historian. Born in Blackheath. He worked on the excavations at Lesnes Abbey and Charlton Camp near Woolwich.
Major road in London, running from Parliament Square to Trafalgar Square. The name is derived from the Whitehall Palace which stood here and was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1698. The Ban...
Born Calcutta, India. Artist and writer. His father was a civil servant in India and the family moved to England on his retirement. A minor figure in the Pre-Raphaelites, although he exhibited regu...
Person, Art, Literature, India
William Beckham is the boy lying on his side on the left at the front in the photograph of the scout troop. He was one of the ten children of William John Beckham (1870-1917) and Harriett Beckham...
F.R.S. "the father of English clockmaking". Buried in Westminster Abbey.
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