Terrence Higgins Trust
A charity named for Terrence Higgins, one of the first people to die from the AIDS virus in Britain. It campaigns on and provides services relating to HIV and sexual health. A plaque at 333 Old Str...
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Sir Leonard Hill
Sir Leonard Erskine Hill was a medical researcher. Born Bruce Castle School (his father owning the school). Professor of physiology in the University of London. Contributed to the understanding of ...
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Octavia Hill
Housing reformer and co-founder of The National Trust. Â Born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, her father's eighth daughter (yes, really). Â She believed that social housing should be small houses (rather...
Person, Gardens / Agriculture, History, Property, Social Welfare
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Keith Dudley Hoare, SBSTJ
At Gibraltar Fire and Rescue Service this photo is captioned: "Captain W. H. Keith Hoare relinquished Military Duties and was appointed as the first Gibraltarian civilian Fire Chief of Gibraltar. H...
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Committee and Friends of the United Kingdom Band of Hope Union
Hope UK is a Christian charity based in London which educates children and young people about drug and alcohol abuse. Local meetings started in Leeds with the objective to teach children the impor...
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Charles Hopton
Born into a wealthy merchant family and admitted as a child to the Guild of Fishmongers. His will provided for almshouses to be built in the parish of Christchurch, Blackfrars, for poor, single men...
2 memorials
Sir Ebenezer Howard
Founder of the garden city movement. Born 62 Fore Street. Travelled to America in 1871 where he tried farming and was in Chicago at the time that it was being rebuilt after a great fire. The new su...
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John Howard
Prison reformer. Born Hackney. Travelled throughout the UK and then further afield investigating the state of welfare in prisons and doing what he could to improve it. Died in Kherson in the Ukrain...
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Edith How-Martyn
Suffragist and birth control campaigner. Born Edith How in London. 1899 married George Herbert Martyn. Member of the Women's Social and Political Union. She was arrested in 1906 for attempting to ...
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Hoxton Market Christian Mission
Founded by John and Lewis Burtt. Described by Charles Booth as a "soup kitchen and refuge for the poor". Janet Seale wrote to us in 2013: "I used to attend Sunday School at Hoxton Market Christian ...
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