Statesman. Born Lancashire. Previously known as the Marquess of Hartington, or in the gossip columns as Harty-Tarty. Close friend of Edward VII. Had a serious affair with Skittles in 1859 - 1863 and then for 30 years with Louise Montagu, Duchess of Manchester. They eventually married a respectable 2 years after the death of her husband the Duke. Minister of War and partly responsible for sending General Gordon to Khartoum and the consequences of the siege. Died at the Hotel Metropol in Cannes, on his way back from wintering in Egypt.
There is another statue of the Duke in the Carpet Gardens at Eastbourne where he was mayor 1897 - 1898.
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8th Duke of Devonshire, Spencer Compton
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8th Duke of Devonshire
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Henry England
Chairman (presumably of the Licensed Victuallers Benevolent Institution) in 1839. We can find no information.
1 memorial
Frederick George Lucas
Chairman and managing director of the Brilliant Sign Company. He purchased the company in 1902 and served as chairman for more than fifty years.
1 memorial
Friedrich Engels
Political philosopher. Born Barmen, Germany. Died at home in Regent's Park Road. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says at number 41 but there is no suggestion anywhere else that the Enge...
Person, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Germany
2 memorials
Peter Kropotkin
Born Moscow into an ancient aristocratic Russian family and highly educated but his sympathies were with the peasants who had looked after him as a child. His revolutionary activities brought exile...
1 memorial
Captain Broderick Hartwell
Naval officer. RN Lieut-Governor of Greenwich Hospital.  We think this is Broderick Robert Hartwell - born Ireland, with the dates we've given.
1 memorial
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