Dr John Lettsom
Physician, philanthropist, abolitionist and entomologist. Born British Virgin Islands into a Quaker family. Aged 6 was sent to England to be educated. Came to London in 1766 to train at St Thomas' ...
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William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme
Soap magnate and philanthropist, founder of Port Sunlight, near Liverpool. Born 6 Wood Street, Bolton, Lancashire. Known for his patronage of the arts and paternalistic social policies, he was also...
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Sir Albert Levy
Founder of the Ardath Tobacco Company. Â Honorary Treasurer at the Royal Free Hospital in 1926. See Lord Riddell. Â Also helped fund the 1928 new extension for which the maternity section was named t...
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Ada Lewis-Hill
Ada Hannah Lewis-Hill, philanthropist. Born Liverpool but brought up in a large family in Dublin where she married Samuel Lewis in 1867. They lived in Grosvenor Square until his death in 1901, when...
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Samuel Lewis
Moneylender and philanthropist. A jew, born in a slum in Birmingham, who worked his way into being an established travelling jeweller by 1867, when he married and came with his wife, Ada, to London...
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Lord Llangattock, John Rolls
Landowner, Conservative politician, socialite, local benefactor and agriculturalist. 1st Baron Llangattock. Based in Wales, at the Llangattock estate. Prominent member of the Anti-Vivisection Socie...
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Loughton Brotherhood
National Archives hold records of the organisation, 1912-77. The Kirbys confidently state: "The Loughton Brotherhood refers to the local Freemasons" and we've no reason to doubt it.
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Katherine Mackay Low
Philanthropist. Born in Georgia, USA to British parents. After her mother's death, the family moved to Britain. In Battersea, which at the time was a deprived area of London, she devoted herself to...
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Sir Francis Lycett
Methodist Worthies by George John Stevenson Vol IV, 1885, has a biography which tells the story of the 50 chapels, claiming that he laid the foundations of 40. We find this hard to believe (show us...
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