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Sir Richard Beachcroft

Sir Richard Beachcroft

Administrator. Born Richard Melvill Beachcroft in Hampstead. He was Deputy Chairman, Vice Chairman and finally Chairman of the London County Council from 1896 to 1910. An early Alpinist, he first t...

Person, Politics & Administration, Sport / Games

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Mark Edward Bennett

Mark Edward Bennett

Mayor of Lambeth 2013-14. Died suddenly aged 44. Mark Edward Bennett was born on 9 July 1969 in Crowthorne, Berkshire. He was the son of Colin Leslie Bennett (1940-2017) and Barbara A. Bennett née...

Person, Politics & Administration

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Mark Hilsly / Hillsley

Mark Hilsly / Hillsley

Mark Hilsly was the son of Mark, an alderman, and Dorothy. His brother was Stephen, a merchant of Cambridge and Oxford. He came from Lincolnshire to be married in London (possibly at Lincoln's Inn)...

Person

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Thomas Rhodes Armitage

Thomas Rhodes Armitage

Thomas Rhodes Armitage was a British physician, and founder of the Royal National Institute of Blind People. Born in Sussex to the landed Armitage family of Farnley Hall (Yorkshire) he was raised ...

Person, Medicine, Philanthropy, France, Germany, Ireland

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Michael Heseltine

Michael Heseltine

Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, CH, PC is a British politician. Having begun his career as a property developer, he became one of the founders of the publishing house Haymarket Media...

Person, Politics & Administration

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Yuri Andropov

Yuri Andropov

Leader of the Soviet Union 1982-84. Source: Wikipedia.

Person, Politics & Administration, Russia

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Sir Hugh Carleton Greene

Sir Hugh Carleton Greene

Journalist and television executive. Born in Berkhamsted, brother of novelist Graham Greene. In 1934 he became chief correspondent in Berlin for the Daily Telegraph. The Nazis deported him, but he ...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, TV & Radio

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Marie-Louise Christophe

Marie-Louise Christophe

First and only queen of Haiti. Born Marie-Louise Coidavid into a free black family. In 1793 she married Henri Christophe, a slave purchased by her father who owned a hotel. According to legend Hen...

Person, Royalty, Caribbean Islands, Italy

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Daniel Barrett

Daniel Barrett

Daniel was brother to Harriet and Thomas.  He lived in or near Three Colt Street and died in or before 1886. Daniel Barrett was born on 29 December 1806 in Bloomsbury, Middlesex (now Greater Londo...

Person, Commerce, Friend / family

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Thomas Barrett

Thomas Barrett

Thomas was brother to Harriet and Daniel.  He lived near Stepney Gate (probably near the junction of Commercial Road and White Horse Road) and died in or before 1886. Thomas Barrett was born on 17...

Person, Commerce, Friend / family

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