Sir Robert Mayer
Born in Germany. Click on external site for more information.
1 memorial
Frank Meisler
Architect and sculptor. Born Danzig. Arrived in England via the Kindertransport. Active in 2006. Art Forum obit. Born in what was then Danzig and is now Gdansk, Poland. Meisler was himself one of t...
Person, Architecture, Sculpture, Germany, Israel/Palestine, Poland
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Felix Mendelssohn
Composer. Born Felix Mendelssohn in Hamburg. Later became Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Bartholdy was a name already adopted by a member of his mother's family who had converted to Chri...
4 memorials
Sir Yehudi Menuhin
Born in New York, child of recent immigrants, achieved fame as a violinist at age 7. Spent most of his career in Britain, becoming a British citizen in 1985. Initially working in the classics, as p...
1 memorial
Merchant Adventurers of Hamburg
We can't find anything definitive but we believe this to be a group of British merchants who traded with Hamburg. The alternative being a group of merchants from Hamburg who traded with London. At...
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Prince Metternich
Politician and statesman. Born Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Fürst Von Metternich-Winneburg-Beilstein in Coblenz. At the age of 28 he was Austrian Minister at Dresden, then Berlin and Paris...
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Alfred Lord Milner
Statesman. Born Germany. His English grandfather was involved in the Rhineland trade and had married and settled there. His family moved to Chelsea when he was 6. Died at his farm near Canterbury.
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Elizabeth Mitchell
Singer. Born in Jamaica, her family emigrated to London in 1963. Known as Liz Mitchell, she joined the cast of the musical 'Hair' and eventually moved to Berlin to join the German production, where...
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László Moholy-Nagy
Painter, photographer and film-maker. Born László Weisz in Bácsborsód, Hungary, he changed his surname to that of his mother's lawyer friend, (Wikipedia says maternal uncle) who had helped when the...
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Ernst Moller
A German WW1 internee at Alexandra Palace who died there and was buried in New Southgate Cemetery. AN612
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