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Ettore Meconi

Person, Italy

Bishop Mellitus

In 604 the Bishop Mellitus arrived from Italy as the first Bishop of London and built and dedicated a cathedral to St Paul on the site where St Paul’s stands today.  Became Archbishop of Canterbury...

Person, Religion, Italy

Salvatore Mercadante

Person, Italy

Raffaello Merolle

Person, Italy

Alice Meynell

Poet and journalist.  Alice Thompson was born in Barnes.  Her paternal grandmother was an unmarried Creole.  Educated with her sister entirely by their father as they lived a peripatetic life mainl...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Poetry, Italy

Michelangelo

Sculptor, painter, architect and poet.

Person, Architecture, Art, Engineering, Poetry, Sculpture, Seriously Famous, Italy

Giulio Mignosi

Person, Italy

Mary of Modena

Second wife of King James II. Born in the Duchy of Modena, Italy. She lost five children in infancy, before giving birth in 1688 to James Francis Edward Stuart (the future 'Old Pretender'). News of...

Person, Royalty, France, Italy

Sir Moses Montefiore

Philanthropist and Jewish leader. Born Italy, brought up in London. Married into the Rothschild family.

Person, Philanthropy, Religion, Israel/Palestine, Italy

Field Marshal Montgomery

Army Commander. Born Bernard Law Montgomery, son of Sir H. H. Montgomery, in St Mark's Vicarage, Kennington Oval, or Kensington, Knightsbridge, depending on source. Spent the early years of his lif...

Person, Armed Forces, Seriously Famous, Australia, Egypt, France, Italy