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
Commemorated ati
Wandsworth time capsule
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
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Albert Reginald Twyford
The plaque gives his first names as Reginald Albert in that order. However, h...
Alliott Verdon Roe - SW18
A. V. Roe, 1877 - 1958, aircraft pioneer and designer of AVRO aeroplanes, exp...
Battersea Park bandstand
Battersea Park was re-opened to the public by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh KG KT...
Biograph Theatre
Biograph Theatre opened 1908 as London's first licensed cinema. Originally th...
Brown Dog statue - original - lost
The structure is a reasonably standard late Victorian drinking fountain, in g...
Other Subjects
Harry Percy Shepherd
Late Chairman of the Police Committee of the Corporation of London in 1926. Wikipedia lists him as a Sheriff of the City of London in that same year which, together with the "late", rather suggests...
1 memorial
Michael McWilliam
Director of the School of Oriental and African Studies.
1 memorial
Women's Liberal Association
Women's suffrage movement. It seems that many of these groups merged to form the Liberal Women's Foundation in 1887.
1 memorial
William Sebright
Also named William Seabright. Town Clerk of London 1574 - 1603. From Sebright's Educational Foundation: "His first marriage was to the daughter of a Mr Goldsten of London. His second wife, Elizab...
2 memorials
1 memorial
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Alan Blanc
Alan John Blanc's birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1929 in the Edmonton registration district. He was the son of Albert Francis Blanc (1888-1973) and Winifred Evelyn Blanc née Kirtland (1...
1 memorial
Founders' Hall - Cloth Fair, plaque with crest
EC1, Cloth Fair, 1
This was the third site of the Founders Hall which was built here 1985-7. The two plaques are either side of a very impressive solid woo...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Charles Fox - W1
W1, Clarges Street, 46, The Fox Club
LCC Charles James Fox, 1749 - 1806, statesman, lived here.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Thomas Cromwell
Born Putney. Executed on Tower Hill by order of Henry VIII, while Henry married Katherine Howard, wife number 5. Oliver Cromwell is descended from one of Thomas's sisters, whose husband changed hi...
5 memorials
Corporal Samuel MacPhearson
See Farquar Shaw for the story of the Black Watch mutiny.
1 memorial
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