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Sir William Addison

Subject: Sir William Addison

Born 4/4/1905, 121 years ago

Historian and author. Born William Wilkinson Addison at Mitton, Lancashire. He moved to Buckhurst Hill on the edge of Epping Forest, Essex, and began a lifelong association with the area, which res...

Person, Law, Literature

1 memorial
Maya Angelou

Subject: Maya Angelou

Born 4/4/1928, 98 years ago

Author and poet.  Born Marguerite Ann Johnson in St Louis, Missouri, USA. She died, aged 86 years, on 28 May 2014 at her home in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA. Her body was cr...

Person, Gender Issues, Poetry, USA

1 memorial
Gilbert Bayes

Subject: Gilbert Bayes

Born 4/4/1872, 154 years ago

Born 6 Oval Road, Camden Town. Also did the bronze group with clock at the entrance to Selfridges; Oxford Street (1928); the lovely sculptural work on 1 Wigmore Street (1925) as shown at Ornamental...

Person, Sculpture

11 memorials
BBC School Radio

Subject: BBC School Radio

Started 4/4/1924, 102 years ago

The first broadcast was made by Sir Walford Davies, professor of music at Gresham College and was only available in the London area. Nationwide broadcasting started in 1927. The service came into p...

Group, TV & Radio

1 memorial
W. Brinklow

Subject: W. Brinklow

Died 4/4/1918, 108 years ago

R.F.N. in the Rifle Brigade. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Rifleman William James Brinklow was born in 1898 in Hampstead, a son of William James Brinklow and Ada Brinklow, sister to J. Ben...

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Clement Attlee statue

Memorial: Clement Attlee statue

Erected 4/4/2011, 15 years ago

E1, Commerical Road, Queen Mary College

It's rather disconcerting that the plaque refers to "Queen Mary College" as "Queen Mary" as in "... the Great Hall....now part of Queen M...

2 subjects commemorated, 7 creators
Admiral, Sir John Colpoys, GCB

Subject: Admiral, Sir John Colpoys, GCB

Died 4/4/1821, 205 years ago

Naval officer.  While attempting to control the 1797 Spithead mutiny, Colpoys ordered the shooting of his own crew thus causing the death of several men (we can't find an exact number).  Not surpri...

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sir William Crookes

Subject: Sir William Crookes

Died 4/4/1919, 107 years ago

Chemist, physicist and science journalist. Born 143 Regent Street, presumably in a residential apartment above his father's gentlemen's outfitters shop in the Nash-designed terraces. Worked on spec...

Person, Paranormal, Science

1 memorial
George Dudley

Subject: George Dudley

Born 4/4/1880, 146 years ago

George Dudley was born on 4 April 1880 in Shoreditch, the second of the seven sons of Edward George Dudley (b. 1855) and Louisa Dudley née Skinner (1856-1925). His father was a porter. The 1881 ce...

Person

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Lieutenant Raymond Praed Eason

Subject: Lieutenant Raymond Praed Eason

Born 4/4/1895, 131 years ago

Raymond Praed Eason was born on 4 April 1895, at Queen's Road, Watford, Hertfordshire, the eldest of the five children of James William Eason (1867-1923) and Elizabeth Praed Eason née Gee (1870-195...

Person, Armed Forces, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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