Second Lord Kensington. He served as member of parliament for Haverfordwest from 1802 to 1818. He was the instigator of the failed Kensington Canal. Constructed in 1828 it was replaced with rail tracks c. 1860. It ran from near Chelsea Harbour to near Earl's Court. See Wikipedia for details.
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William Edwardes, 2nd Baron Kensington
Edwardes Square 1811 - 1820 Partly built by a Frenchman, falsely rumoured to ...
Treasurer associated with St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1702.
Robert Edwin Hemblington Goffin was born in 1836 in Highgate, Middlesex, the eldest of the eleven children of John Breeze Goffin (1799-1874) and Martha Goffin née Hall (1810-1891). On 9 October 183...
Alexander Alfred Yeatman was born on 21 December 1858 at 20 Providence Place, Kentish Town, Middlesex (now Greater London), the second of the four children of Arthur Yeatman (1829-1903) and Elizabe...
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Statesman. Born Germany. His English grandfather was involved in the Rhineland trade and had married and settled there. His family moved to Chelsea when he was 6. Died at his farm near Canterbury.
Sculptor. William Silver Frith. Born Leicester. Other London work: Metropolitan Life Assurance Company building in Moorgate; Imperial College, South Kensington,; Two Temple Place.
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