Valentine Poole Trust
A charity founded when Valentine Poole left various properties he owned to the parishioners of Chipping Barnet, where he was born. It now provides relief to the needy and poor. We can find nothing...
1 memorial
Charles Cheers, Baron Wakefield of Hythe CGE, LLD
Charles Cheers Wakefield was born and raised in Liverpool. (Cheers was his mother's maiden name). Became an oil-broker, founding his own firm in 1899, C.C. Wakefield & Co. later Wakefield Oil C...
Person, Commerce, Lord Mayor, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Thomas Wall
Sausage entrepreneur and philanthropist. Born at 113 Jermyn Street (2022 this is occupied by Rowley's Steak Restaurant). In 1870 he was made a partner in his father's sausage making business and wi...
3 memorials
War Savings Campaign
Second World War gives a good description of the story behind these plaques. Each year the fundraising was given a different focus:  Communities would have a fund-raising committee which worked wi...
2 memorials
Waterloo Free Buffet
Fed over eight million soldiers and sailors from British, Imperial & Allied Forces. Worked and supported entirely by voluntary effort, probably also entirely female.We could not find a picture...
1 memorial
Sir Sydney H. Waterlow
Philanthropist. Born in Crown Street, now Sun Street, EC2. Brought up in Mile End. Followed his father and brothers into the stationery and printing business. 1863 founded, and chaired, the philan...
5 memorials
Grand Order of Water Rats
Show business charity with headquarters at The Water Rats Public House in the Gray's Inn Road.
8 memorials
Joshua Watson
Philanthropist, educationalist and prominent lay churchman. Â Born Tower Hill. Â Went into his father's wine merchant business. Â 1811 he took the house at Clapton. Â A leading member of the "Hackney P...
1 memorial
Wells & Campden Charity
Original name was the Wells Charity, named after Chalybeate Well.
1 memorial
Sir Julius Wernher
Co-founder and funder (with Alfred Beit) of the Royal School of Mines building. Born Damstadt, Germany, came to London in 1871, and, acting as a diamond agent, went to Kimberly in South Africa. Re...
Person, Industry, Philanthropy, Race Issues, Germany, South Africa
1 memorial
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