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Group    From 21/3/1889  To 1965

London County Council

London County Council

Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the first directly elected strategic local government body for London. Replaced by the Greater London Council, covering a larger area.

In 1901 took over the blue plaque scheme from the Royal Society of Arts. Now run by English Heritage.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
London County Council

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Andrew Young

Andrew Behan directed us to Coletti where we discovered that the plaque was "...

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Avondale Park

This park was acquired and laid out by the Vestry of Kensington with financia...

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Beechwood - William Sebright

Beechwood House This building was built in 1948 by the London County Council ...

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Cobden House

Cobden House This block was built in 1958 by the London County Council and wa...

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Coram's Fields

These grounds, the site of the Foundling Hospital, established in 1739 by Cap...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
London County Council

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Adam, Hood, Galsworthy, Barrie, etc.

Robert Adam, Thomas Hood, John Galsworthy, Sir James Barrie and other eminent...

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Albert Chevalier

Albert Chevalier, 1861 - 1923, music hall comedian, was born here. London Cou...

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Alfred Stevens

Alfred Stevens (1817 - 1875) artist, lived here. LCC

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Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell, 1847 - 1922, poet and essayist, lived here. London County Council

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Andrew Bonar Law

London County Council Andrew Bonar Law, 1858-1923, prime minister lived here.

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Other Subjects

Jacqueline Theodora Cockburn

Jacqueline Theodora Cockburn

Born Jacqueline Theodora Trotter, daughter of Henry Trotter and sister to Angela Olivia Trotter, Countess of Limerick (1897 – 1981). Married Archibald Cockburn and lived in Cheyne Walk. Died withou...

Person, Politics & Administration

3 memorials
William James Wetenhall

William James Wetenhall

Churchwarden in St Pancras Vestry in 1889. Chairman of the Vestry in 1897. William James Wetenhall was born on 1 January 1835 in Southwark, Surrey (now Greater London), a son of Emanuel Wetenhall ...

Person, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Frederic Clare Melhado

Frederic Clare Melhado

Frederic Nicholas Clare Melhado was born about 1862 in Maida Hill, London, the younger son of Michael Clare Melhado (1814-1879) and Julia Presbury Melhado née Steele (1825-1910). On 12 March 1862 h...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
C. G. E.  Fletcher

C. G. E. Fletcher

Islington Town Clerk in 1915 and in 1921, the year the photo was taken. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: Clarence George Eugene Fletcher was born on 19 September 1875...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex

Born Herefordshire.  Related via the Boleyn family to Queen Elizabeth I.  Married a daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham.  Became a favourite of the Queen.  However he performed badly as Lord Lieuten...

Person, Execution, Politics & Administration

2 memorials