Anti-slavery campaigner.  Born Dorset.  Trained in law and worked for a time in the Carribean where he saw the cruelty to slaves and became an abolitionist.  The death of his first wife deepened hi...
Person, Law, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion, Caribbean Islands
Promoted to Major-General after his service at Abu Klea, Sudan. Born at Sparsholt, Hampshire. Died travelling from Khartoum to Korti and was buried near the wells at Jakdul.
Named not for its own two towers but for the nearby, pre-existing Tower of London. Tower Bridge was designed by Horace Jones, the City Architect, in collaboration with the engineer, John Wolfe Barr...
In 1894 the royal personages listed at the top of the plaque as: Prince of Wales, Princess of Wales and Duke of York, were, in simpler te...
These plaques are attached to the north-west tower and also the south-east tower, all duplicated except for "opened to the public" which ...
For many years he took a prominent part in the work of the British Medical Association having been chairman of the representative body from 1915-1918 and a member of the Council from 1912-1931. He ...
Walter J. Macqueen-Pope 1888 - 1960 theatre manager and historian lived here. Historic Buildings of the London Borough of Haringey
A project worker for a charity for homeless children. Killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 40. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Simon Edward Wood was born on 30 Ju...
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