Subject: Henry Reading
Died 15/8/1853, 172 years ago
Construction worker killed in the fatal accident at Crystal Palace.
1 memorial
Subject: Walter Scott
Born 15/8/1771, 254 years ago
Writer. Born Edinburgh. Extremely popular in his lifetime, worldwide. Novels include: Waverley and Ivanhoe. Poems: Lady of the Lake. Died Abbotsford, south of Edinburgh, his home since 1812. ...
3 memorials
Subject: George Rolph Smith
Died 15/8/1853, 172 years ago
Construction worker killed in the fatal accident at Crystal Palace.
1 memorial
Subject: James Richard Stanhope
Died 15/8/1967, 58 years ago
He served with the Grenadier Guards in the Second Boer War. Entering the House of Lords on the death of his father, he became 13th Earl of Chesterfield and 7th Earl Stanhope.Â
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, South Africa
1 memorial
Subject: Charles Sumner, Bishop of Winchester
Died 15/8/1874, 151 years ago
Charles Richard Sumner KG was a Church of England bishop. Consecrated Bishop of Winchester in 1827. In 1869 he resigned his seat, but continued to live at the official residence in Farnham until h...
1 memorial
Subject: Albert Maurice Richard Sweetapple
Died 15/8/1918, 107 years ago
Gunner Albert Maurice Richard Sweetapple was born on 12 May 1896, the youngest of the five children of George John Sweetapple (1860-1944) and Maria Eliza Sweetapple née Curtis (1859-1933), his birt...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Subject: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Born 15/8/1875, 150 years ago
Composer. Born 15 Theobalds Road, of a mixed race couple, his father being a Sierra Leonean Creole, and brought up in Croydon. His surname was Taylor and he was given the names Samuel Coleridge in ...
3 memorials
Subject: George Topham
Died 15/8/1853, 172 years ago
Construction worker killed in the fatal accident at Crystal Palace.
1 memorial
Subject: Edward Turner
Died 15/8/1973, 52 years ago
Motorcycle designer and manufacturer. Born at 32 Bronti Place, Walworth, Surrey. He became chief designer of the Ariel Cycle Company in 1932, where he designed the four-cylinder Square Four power u...
1 memorial
Subject: James Wardlow
Died 15/8/1853, 172 years ago
Construction worker killed in the fatal accident at Crystal Palace.
1 memorial
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