One of the Special Commissioners for the Great Exhibition 1851.
Born in Bengal. Chemist. 1st Baron Playfair. Died at home in South Kensington.
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Lyon Playfair
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Great Exhibition and Prince Albert
Designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke. Inaugurated by...
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Ernest Bevin
Born in Winford, Somerset. "The Dockers' K.C.". Self-taught. National Organiser of the Dockers' Union, 1910 - 1921. General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (which he created...
2 memorials
Elisee Reclus
Geographer, writer and anarchist. Born France. Visited Britain during 1852-7. Supported the Paris Commune of 1871. In 1872 was sentenced to perpetual banishment from France and settled in Switzerla...
Person, Politics & Administration, Belgium, France, Switzerland
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Joan Brownlow Hanham, The Baroness Hanham, C.B.E.
Leader of the Kensington and Chelsea Council, 1989-2000. Her Wikipedia page gives much information and confirms that she died aged 85 years on 24 January 2025. She is shown as "THE BARONESS HANHAM...
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James Chadwick
Inhabitant of Westminster and Governor of the Emery Hill Almshouses. Â Husband of Hannah Sara Chadwick. Â Died before 1850.
1 memorial
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