Group    From 1937 

Westminster School Society

Categories: Benefactor, Education

A charity administered by a council of Old Westminsters that provides financial assistance to Westminster School for the benefit of current pupils.

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Westminster School Society

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Westminster School - arches

No erection date is given but we've guessed that the work was done and the pl...

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Westminster School - Queen Elizabeth I statue

Brought to our attention by Londonist's rather tongue-in-cheek post, though w...

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Other Subjects

people of Dorking

people of Dorking

The town where Laurence Olivier was born.

Group, Benefactor

1 memorial
Sir Arthur Crosfield

Sir Arthur Crosfield

Wealthy soap magnate and Liberal MP for Warrington in Cheshire. Married Domini Elliadi, a Greek tennis champion and millionairess, and in 1912 they bought Parkfield in Highgate from Walter Scrimgeo...

Person, Benefactor, Industry, Politics & Administration, France, Greece

1 memorial
John Henry Buxton

John Henry Buxton

Our colleague, Andrew Behan, did some searching and at the Cambridge Alumni Database he found a John Henry Buxton who was a trustee of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Associati...

Person, Benefactor

3 memorials
Blanche Esther Barnett

Blanche Esther Barnett

Blanche Esther Berliner was born on 4 November 1876 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, the eldest of the three children of Berman Berliner (1848-1913) and Helen Harriet Benjamin Berliner née Thoemin (1...

Person, Benefactor

1 memorial

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Match tax abandoned

Match tax abandoned

I871 the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert Lowe, proposed a tax on matches.  The Bryant and May workers, mainly girls, realised this threatened their jobs and marched in protest on the House of C...

Event, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Friendly Female Society

Friendly Female Society

From Bridge to Nowhere: "The Female Friendly Society {sic} was started in 1802, by and for women, operating “by love, kindness, and absence of humbug”. It gave small grants to “poor, aged women of ...

Group, Gender Issues, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Women's suffrage

Women's suffrage

Throughout history women have generally not been allowed to vote, with, by the 19th century, a few exceptions based on the woman's marital status or her property ownership, and then only in some el...

Event, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
World War 2

World War 2

Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps.  And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

377 memorials