Phillis Wheatley
American writer who was the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. Her name can also be given as Phillis Wheatley Peters or Phyllis or Wheatly. Born in West Africa, she was s...
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Cuthbert Arthur Brereton
Civil engineer. His many projects include: with Wolfe-Barry, the 1903 Kew Bridge, over the Thames, correctly known as King Edward VII Bridge; his involvement with the construction of the Barry and ...
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Mark Kennedy
Zambian-born New Zealand sculptor active in 2002. Kennedy owns and runs the Bronze Age Foundry.
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Michael Whittard
Died, aged 39, when a construction crane crashed. See Martin Burgess for details of the crash.
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Peter Clark
Died, aged 33, when a construction crane crashed. See Martin Burgess for details of the crash.
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Martin Burgess
Died, aged 31, when a construction crane crashed, along with Peter Clark and Michal Whittard. The BBC reported on the inquest. The crane was on the construction site for the HSBC skyscraper in Can...
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Patrick McEvoy
Architect. He has won two London Festival of Architecture competitions in consecutive years: with the bench 'Here Lies Geoffrey Barkington' in 2018 and the parklet ‘Pavement Art Gallery’ in 2019. T...
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Veronica Maudlyn Ryan, OBE.
Veronica Maudlyn Ryan was born on 22 August 1956 in Plymouth, Montserrat, according to the Prabook website. She moved to London with her parents Cyril & Eleanor Ryan when she was an infant and ...
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James Leslie Hicks Eytle
James Leslie Hicks Eytle was born on 3 August 1922 in British Guiana (now Guyana), the fourth of the seven children of James Alexander Eytle (1882-1956) and Gertrude Caroline Viola Eytle née Hicks ...
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Happy Mahlangu
Deputy Commissioner for South Africa in the UK in 1998. This photo shows Mahangu with his wife in 2013. On the net he is best known for some ill-chosen comments on the democratisation of Swaziland ...
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