Graham Hill
Racing driver. Born in Hampstead. He was twice the Formula One World Champion, and is the only driver ever to win the Triple Crown of Motorsport (24 Hours of Le Mans, Indianapolis 500 and the Monac...
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Dr. Alfred Collett Bartley
Mitcham village doctor. In 1826 he modernised the White House which remained in his family until 1919. A Merton Historical Society Bulletin has "The White House was .... home from about 1820 to .....
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Robert Percy Smith
Robert Percy Smith, known as "Bobus" Smith was a lawyer, MP, and Judge Advocate-General of Bengal, India. Brother of Rev. Sydney Smith. Made his fortune during his 7 years in Bengal. As a governor...
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William Chadwell Mylne
William Chadwell Mylne, FRS was a civil engineer and architect. He was descended from a Scottish family of masons and architects, and was the second son of Robert Mylne, who happened to be surveyor...
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Dorothea Lambert Chambers
Dorothea Lambert Chambers (née Dorothea Katherine Douglass) was a British tennis player. She won seven Wimbledon women's singles titles and a gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Born Ealing. D...
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Herbert Schmalz
Herbert Gustave Schmalz was a painter, mainly religious subjects in a Pre-Raphaelite style. His father was a merchant, and later Prussian consul in Newcastle, where Schmalz was born. His maternal g...
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Enid Marx
Enid Crystal Dorothy Marx, RDI, painter and designer, best known for her industrial textile designs for the London Transport Board and the Utility Furniture Scheme. The first female engraver to be ...
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Henry Raine
Born into the family which ran the Star Brewhouse, Wapping, where he lived until he built Hurst House, Woodford. A pious churchman, highly respected in the community. His only wife died shortly af...
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Evelyn Rothwell, Lady Barbirolli
Oboist and wife of Sir John Barbirolli. Born in Wallingford-on-Thames, she studied oboe under Leon Goossens, and deputised for him in the Drury Lane Orchestra. This was at a time when there were fe...
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10th Earl of Winchelsea
Politician. Born George William Finch-Hatton at Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire. He succeeded to his title in 1826, and most sources refer to him as the Earl of Winchelsea. An ardent Protestant and on...
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