Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England and founder of Winchester College. Reconstructed Windsor Castle for King Edward III. Click on external site for more information. And see Winchester geese for the seamier side of the bishopric.
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Thomas Neale MP
Entrepreneur, the organiser of England's first lottery. Known as 'The Great Projector' although the layout of the Seven Dials area is his only surviving London project. Neal Street and Neal's Yard...
1 memorial
William Oxtoby, A.M.I.C.E.
Appointed Surveyor/Engineer for the Borough of Camberwell c.1898. William Oxtoby was born on 7 February 1862 in Hull, Yorkshire. He was the fourth of the five children of Robert Oxtoby (1823-1874)...
2 memorials
John Hargrave Stevens
Architect. Seems to have specialised in churches and often worked in partnership with George Alexander.
1 memorial
Charles Robert Ashbee
Designer, architect, conservationist, entrepreneur and social reformer, important in the Arts and Crafts movement. Born Spring Grove, Isleworth but brought up at 46 Upper Bedford Place, in a well-o...
1 memorial
Auguste Charles Pugin
Architectural draughtsman. Born in Paris, a member of the French aristocracy who fled France during the Revolution and spent much of his life in England. Father of Augustus Pugin.
1 memorial
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James Brown
Contractors' engineer on the construction of the Rotherhithe Tunnel in 1908.
2 memorials
No 6 Group Headquarters, Royal Canadian Air Force
Wikipedia says this group oversaw the Royal Canadian Air Force heavy bomber squadrons in Europe during WW2, 1942 - 1945. It operated out of airfields in Yorkshire. Latin motto: Sollertia et Ingeni...
1 memorial
Charles Holden
Architect. Born Bolton. c.1897 he moved to London and worked briefly for C. R. Ashbee. 1899 he moved to H. Percy Adams' practice where he stayed for the rest of his career. c.1906 moved to Harmer G...
13 memorials
Ambrose Godfrey
Apothecary. Born in Köthen (Anhalt). Also known as Ambrose Godfrey-Hanckwitz and Gottfried Hankwitz or Hanckewitz. In 1679 he travelled to London and became an assistant to Robert Boyle. They worke...
1 memorial
Women's Royal Naval Service
The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS; popularly and officially known as the Wrens) was the women's branch of the Royal Navy. First formed in 1917 for WW1, it was disbanded in 1919, then revived in...
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