Person    | Male  Born 26/6/1858  Died 15/7/1920

William Nisbet Blair

Categories: Architecture

Architect. Born Morpeth, Northumberland. Appointed St Pancras Borough Engineer in 1893 and still in post in 1906. Lived at 23 West Hill. Father of the entomologist, Kenneth Blair. Died Middlesex. Has a page at My Blair family. The library is the only building of his that we can find.

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William Nisbet Blair

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Highgate Branch Library - inside

Borough of St Pancras - Highgate Branch Library This library was opened by Hi...

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Sir Horace Jones

Sir Horace Jones

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John Francis Bentley

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Merton Place

Merton Place

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2 memorials
Sir Basil Spence

Sir Basil Spence

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Frederick J. Andrew

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1 memorial
Palmerston statue

Palmerston statue

SW1, Parliament Square

{On the front of the plinth and repeated on the back:} Viscount Palmerston {On the base of the statue:} T. Woolner, RA, Sc. 1876 R. Mas...

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Mark Tibbs

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Professional boxer from Canning Town who worked in the Royal Docks.

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1 memorial
A. E. Capon

A. E. Capon

Name on one of the corner plaques of the East Ham WW1 memorial.

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial