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William Nicholson

Distiller, politician, cricket player, benefactor.  Born Upper Holloway into a gin distillery family.  They made Lamplighter gin at Three Mills on the River Lea.  The business moved into running pu...

Person, Benefactor, Food & Drink, Politics & Administration

Susanna Noel

Mother of 3rd Earl of Gainsborough.

Person, Benefactor

London tenants and friends of Marquess of Northampton

Group, Benefactor

shipowners of Norway

Group, Benefactor, Industry, Transport, Norway

Oeuvre Nationale le Souvenir Belge

A Belgian non-profit organisation founded in 1968 whose name loosely translates as "Work of Belgian Commemoration".  We could find very little information: only this medal and the plaque on the mem...

Group, Benefactor, History, Belgium

Emily Bessie Orbell

Second child of 12. Parents John and Catherine Orbell of Brundon Mill, Ballingdon, Suffolk. The family emigrated to New Zealand in 1849 but Emily later returned alone to England. She died at Lower ...

Person, Benefactor, New Zealand

John Ortelli

Giovanni Battista Ortelli was a successful Italian businessman who founded the Italian Hospital Queen Square. The badly deteriorated Ortelli family vault is at St Mary's RC Cemetery, NW10. There y...

Person, Benefactor, Italy

Charlotte Denison Viscountess Ossington

Sister to Lord George Cavendish Bentinck.  1827 married John Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington but left no children. When her brother (the eccentric 5th Duke) died with no male heir she and he...

Person, Benefactor

citizens of Ottawa

Group, Benefactor, Canada

G. W. Palmer

We can find nothing on this man but think he was probably a Primitive Methodist who donated for the Caladonian Road Chapel.

Person, Benefactor