Author for children. Born Oak Street, Ealing, where the plaque now is. Specialised in writing long series of stories generally using a different pen-name for each. Most famously, as Charles Hamilton he wrote the Billy Bunter stories. Never married. Died at home at Kingsgate-on-Sea, Kent.
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Charles Hamilton (Frank Richards)
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Billy Bunter creator
Charles Hamilton, known as Frank Richards, creator of Billy Bunter, was born ...
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Marjorie Hewson
Nursery nurse. She worked for over forty years at Christ Church School, in Brick Lane, Spitalfields, (the area in which she grew up and lived herself). A popular character, remembered by many for h...
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Frank George Southgate
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 3 months. Buried in grave 5 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
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Arthur George Sexton
Killed in the WW2 Balham station bombing whilst using the deep level platforms as a bomb shelter. Aged 4.
War dead non-military, WW2
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David Edward Ettridge
David Edward Ettridge was born on 1 September 1932, the youngest of the six children of Edward Ettridge (1891-1973) and Elizabeth Mary Ettridge née Rawlinson (1894-1940). His birth was registered i...
War dead non-military, WW2
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