Originally an association of fur traders, it is now an educational and charitable institution. It is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Worshipful Company of Skinners
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Tonbridge Club
Foundation Stone laid by Raymond Denham Poland Esquire, master of the Worship...
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Burlington Arcade (Association)
Lord George Cavendish, the future Earl of Burlington, commissioned the architect Samuel Ware to design this covered shopping arcade. He also founded the Burlington Arcade Beadles, recruited from hi...
2 memorials
The Three Cripples public house
Pub in Charles Dickens's "Oliver Twist".
1 memorial
Henry Thornton
Anti-slavery campaigner. Born Clapham. Successful banker. Good friends with his (indirect) cousin, William Wilberforce, prior to their marriages they shared a house bought by Thornton, Battersea Ri...
Person, Commerce, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion
1 memorial
Caesar Czarnikow
Sugar broker. Born Carl Julius Caesar Czarnikow in Sondershausen, Germany. He came to Britain in 1854, and established his sugar brokerage firm, C. Czarnikow, in 1862, which by the time of his deat...
1 memorial
Tom Thornton
Newspaper proprietor and campaigner. Born in Norwood. He became owner and editor of the Beckenham Journal, and used his influence in helping to establish the Croydon Road Recreation Ground. His pre...
1 memorial
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African National Congress
N1, Penton Street, 28
From the Islington Tribune: "The three-storey office was the headquarters of the ANC between 1978 and 1994. It was there that Oliver Tamb...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
National Fire Service / NFS
Nationwide fire service created during WW2 from the amalgamation of the wartime Auxiliary Fire Service and the many local authority fire brigades. After the war it was split into brigades again un...
1 memorial
James Gallaher, FRAS
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894. May 2018: Gallaher’s second 2nd great-grandson, Craig Gallaher, has generously provided the following information, and the photo (c.1890): Ja...
1 memorial