Antoine Watteau
Artist. Born Jean-Antoine Watteau in Valenciennes. In 1702, he moved to Paris and worked as a scene painter at the Opera. He is credited with inventing the genre of 'fêtes galantes', which shows sc...
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Francis Bourgeois
Artist. Born Peter Francis Lewis Bourgeois in London. He became an art dealer and collector in association with Margaret and Noel Desenfans, and with them founded the Dulwich Picture Gallery. In 17...
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Ellen Elizabeth Maud Wright
Athlete. There is little information about her. At one time, she lived with her family in South Norwood, at 6 Clifford Road, where her father Tom Wright, had one of his cobblers’ shops. She later e...
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Frederick William Gaisberg
American musician, recording engineer and one of the earliest classical music producers for the gramophone. Gaisberg concentrated on talent-scouting and persuading performers to make recordings for...
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James Hall (writer)
Writer and journalist. James Hall started the campaign to commemorate the first recording studio after he chanced upon it while researching his novel, The Industry Of Human Happiness, set in the ea...
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Thomas Phillips Figgis
Architect. Born in Dublin. He moved to London and established his own practice in 1886. His works include hospitals, schools, and thirteen stations for the City and Southwark Subway (now the Northe...
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John Pound
Sir John Pound, 1st Baronet was a businessman, the owner of luggage manufacturer and retailer John Pound & Co. of London, and Lord Mayor of London 1904-5. The business was then run by his sons ...
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Frank M. Harvey
The man on the 1905 plaque is probably not F. Milton Harvey who would have been only 29. Perhaps his father?
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Mrs James Laurie
Active1884. It was common at the time for the wives of prominent men to be asked to perform ceremonial tasks such as laying stones etc. Given the religious name of the hospital it seems likely tha...
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Milutin Alexander Velimirovich
Milutin Alexander Velimirovich was born on 14 October 1953 in Pisek, Okres Písek, Jihočeský, Czechoslovakia (now called South Bohemia, Czech Republic), a son of Dr Alexander and Elisabeth Velimirov...
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