Traditions vary but one is that Mary was the daughter of John Overs, a very successful Thames ferryman in the tenth century. She gave her inherited wealth to fund a convent which became St Mary Overie and then Southwark Cathedral. Call us sceptical but we have classified Mary as Fiction.
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Mary Overie
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Mary Overie
The Legend of Mary Overie Legend suggests that before the construction of Lon...
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Julia Minet
Donor of a mosaic to the Red Cross Garden. She belonged to a public-spirited family of landlords, who funded a library, church and park (Myatt's Fields) for their own tenants in the Camberwell area...
Marguerite Nabers "Wita" Harbert
Marguerite Nabers Jones was born on 24 May 1923 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA, the younger child of Raymond McAdoo Jones (1889-1955) and Marguerite Jones née Nabers (1894-1987). Her...
Charity scholars
Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we can find no origin story explaining why and when the first such statues were erected. We note that there seems to be a ...
Carr-Gomm Society
Charity founded by Richard Carr-Gomm, providing support to deprived people.
Sir Christopher John Benson, OAM, DL, FRICS
Serial Chairman. Chair of the Soho Housing Association in 1990. In view of the number of companies and groups that he's run, we're pretty sure we've got the right man. He was born on 20 July 1933 ...
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