Born San Francisco.
A self-made, extremely wealthy newspaper man. The model for Citizen Kane.
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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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Sutton Talking Newspaper for the Blind
A charity run entirely by volunteers, which each week records local news taken from the Sutton Guardian, for blind and visually impaired people in the Borough of Sutton.
1 memorial
3 memorials
Lydia Becker
President of NUWSS prior to Millicent Fawcett and campaigned for voting rights of unmarried women and widows. Also an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy. Best remembered for ...
1 memorial
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Humourist and writer. Born in Shepherd's Bush, he invented the verse form which took his middle name (his mother's maiden name), and is a four-line nonsense poem about a famous person; an example b...
2 memorials
Will Self
Novelist and journalist. Born William Woodard Self in Westminster. He is the author of ten novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas, and five collections of non-fiction writing. ...
1 memorial
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W1, Brook Street, 25
Seeing a plaque in this 1970s photo of Brook Street at Spitalfields LIfe we investigated and identified the buildings in the photo as num...
1 subject commemorated
Henry Wyndham Phillips
Portrait painter. The Artist Rifles was formed at his studio, 1860. Died Sydenham.
1 memorial
1 memorial
St James's
In the 1660s Henry Jermyn was given the right by Charles II to develop an area carved out of the royal parks. One of the few areas in London that is clearly defined geographically, it is bounded by...
1 memorial
Theatre Royal Marylebone
Opened as the Royal Pavilion West and subjected to many name changes over the years, including: Royal West London Theatre, Marylebone Theatre, West London Theatre. Converted to a cinema in 1932. ...
2 memorials
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