Born Seymour Place. Educated Harrow School. Twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Father of 13 children that survived infancy, including Claud John Hamilton. Died at home in Northern Ireland.
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James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn
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Harrow School - Speech Room
The first stone of the new Speech Room was laid by His Grace the Duke of Aber...
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Richard Cobden
Political economist and Liberal MP. Born near Midhurst, Sussex, into a large and very poor family. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. Spoke repeatedly to Parliament against war with...
5 memorials
Hackney Town Hall
The site of an early town hall ('vestry office' in its early days), is still occupied by the building that was used. This is the building in front of St Augustine's - behind the buses in our photo ...
1 memorial
Admiral, Sir John Colpoys, GCB
Naval officer. Â While attempting to control the 1797 Spithead mutiny, Colpoys ordered the shooting of his own crew thus causing the death of several men (we can't find an exact number). Â Not surpri...
1 memorial
Basaveshwara / Basava / Basavanna
12th century Indian philosopher, poet, social reformer and pioneer of democracy.
1 memorial
General Bernardo O'Higgins
Statesman.  Born in Chile of both Irish and Spanish descent.  Liberated Chile from Spanish rule during the Chilean War of Independence. He is considered one of Chile’s founding fathers and the Chil...
2 memorials
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