Born San Francisco.
A self-made, extremely wealthy newspaper man. The model for Citizen Kane.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
William Randolph Hearst
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Eagle Squadrons
{On the front of the pillar, facing north, into the square, below a carved im...
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Henry Buxton Forman
Born Camden Place, Southampton Street, Camberwell. Bibliographer and forger. An authority on the lives and works of Shelley and Keats. He also had a lifelong career in the Post Office and was award...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Museums / Libraries, Politics & Administration
Daily Mirror newspaper
Tabloid newspaper. Created by Alfred Harmsworth, initially as a paper for women by women but the following year he changed it to be a picture paper with a male editor and he fired all the female j...
William Pitt Byrne
His father, Nicholas Byrne, founder of the 'Morning Post', was murdered in his office in 1833. His mother (Charlotte Dacre, author of Gothic novels) named him in honour of William Pitt who died the...
John Hopkins
John Victor Lindsay "Hoppy" Hopkins was a British photographer, journalist, researcher and political activist, and "one of the best-known underground figures of 'Swinging London' " in the late 1960...
Person, Community / Clubs, Journalism / Publishing, Photography, Politics & Administration
Pennant's London / Of London
A book about London by Thomas Pennant, first published 1790. The Picture Source website does not make it clear that this picture is from Pennant's London, but it is such an apposite picture that we...
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Thomas Plater
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Born Paris. Worked with malaria.
Robert Aske
Son of a draper. Worked as a haberdasher; 1643 became a Freeman of the Haberdashers Company; 1666 elected an Alderman of the City of London. He became Master of the Haberdashers' Company. But the r...
Battersea Vestry and the Borough of Battersea
In 1899 the Battersea Vestry became the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea. In 1965 this merged with the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth to form the London Borough of Wandsworth.
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