Emile Ford
Musician and singer. Born Michael Emile Telford Miller in Castries, Saint Lucia. His family moved to London in the mid 1950s where he taught himself to play a number of musical instruments. He made...
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Gerald Forsythe
Pioneer participant in the Notting Hill Carnival. Gerald Forsythe OBE was the first tutor and manufacturer of pan in Britain. He made the Mangrove Steel Band’s first set of pans. He started steel ...
Person, Community / Clubs, Education, Music / songs, Caribbean Islands
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Dick Francis
Steeplechase jockey and writer. Born Richard Stanley Francis in Coedcanlas, Wales. In his racing career, he won over 350 races and was champion jockey in the 1953-54 season. Â From 1953 to 1957 he w...
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Pepe Francis
Pepe Francis MBE from Trinidad, created the band, Ebony with 2 friends in 1969. He's taken part in Notting Hill Carnival since the beginning. Source: Pan Podium, Google Arts and Culture.
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Arthur Edlin Frederick
On the Hyde Park memorial Arthur’s name is given as ‘Arthur (Soul) Frederick’. Arthur Edlin Frederick was born on 4 October 1944 in Grenada. He came to the UK in 1997 and was a museum's security o...
3 memorials
George Alexander Gratton
Born on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent in 1808 to slave parents. Born with vitiligo, also known as piebaldism he was, as a baby, put on show in the capital, Kingstown. Aged 15 months he was ta...
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Dorothy 'Cherry' Groce
Shooting victim. She was shot by the Metropolitan Police, on 28 September 1985, while they were searching for her son who was suspected of firearm offences. This led to the 1985 Brixton riot. She w...
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Sir George Grove
Writer on music. Born at Thurlow Lodge, 74 Thurlow Terrace, Clapham. Although originally a civil engineer (he supervised the erection of the first lighthouse in Jamaica), his love of music drew him...
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Haitian Chamber of Commerce in the GB
Promotes commercial ties between Haiti and Great Britain.
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Thomas Hearne
Thomas Hearne was born on 22 September 1744 in Marshfield, Gloucestershire, the son of William and Prudence Hearne. He was baptised on 26 September 1744 in St Mary the Virgin Church, Marshfield. H...
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