Sportsman and profligate bon vivant, a life-style enabled through his vast inherited wealth. President of the National Sporting Club. Initiated the boxing prize, the Lonsdale Belt. Founder and first president of the Automobile Association, which adopted his favourite colour, yellow. WW1 he was a recruitment officer of both men and horses. After the war he became a senior steward of the Jockey Club and the first president of the International Horse Show at Olympia. Died at home, Stud House, near Leicester. The picture source provides an interesting profile of this larger than life character.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hugh Cecil Lowther, fifth Earl of Lonsdale
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National Sporting Club
This building was once known as the National Sporting Club, March 1891 - Octo...
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Robert Oxwick
Member of the Fishmongers Company.  Elected Treasurer in 1699.  Primewarden in 1724.  Will dated 26 February 1741.
1 memorial
F. D. Askey
Hornsey Town Clerk in 1907. From British History Online: "During the 1880s F. D. Askey, founder of Hornsey radical association and town clerk 1890-1924, repeatedly attacked the board {the Council} ...
1 memorial
Edgar Issac Lansbury
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest. Despite the claim on his Wikipedia page that he was born on 3 April 1887, this was not the case. He was the fifth of the twelve children...
1 memorial
Henry W. Goodman
Superintendent of Stores in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1892-1913.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Sir Ernest Lamb
Politician. He was elected to the common council of the City of London, later becoming a deputy alderman and lieutenant of the City. He was elected to parliament for Rochester in 1906, losing the s...
1 memorial
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