British colonial administrator and diplomat.
Born Kingston upon Thames. Joined the Colonial Service in Tanganyika as a District Officer in 1958 and become the youngest District Commissioner in Africa. Married Irene Philomena de Sousa. Also served in the New Hebrides, Hong Kong, Turks and Caicos Islands and Montserrat.
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Christopher John Turner CBE
The crucifixion sculpture was created by Cecil Thomas and installed as part o...
Alder President associated with St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1702. A director of the slave trading Royal African Company and a governor of the colonial Irish Society.
One day before the anniversary of the Cable Street battle Mosley's Fascists, now banned from the East End and prevented from wearing uniforms, attempted to march through Bermondsey.  20,000 people ...
Businessman, inventor and manufacturer of pottery. Born Vauxhall Walk where his father was a partner in a pottery business, Doulton and Watts. Followed his brother, John junior, into the business. ...
Member of the Chelsea Vestry Hall Building Committee in 1885. We wonder if this is the same William Davies as that listed on the 1887, Chelsea Embankment, Rossetti fountain as one of many 'Subscri...
Born Huntingdon, the great-grandson of Richard Cromwell who was Thomas Cromwell's nephew. The picture source website also provides these words: "Following the traumatic upheavals of civil war and r...
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