Born in Manchester as Margaret Christian Garnett, great niece of Samuel Palmer. Aged about 6 her family moved to Hampstead. 1934-67 Labour member of the LCC/GLC. Married Douglas Jay (who had literally been the boy next door) in 1933; divorced 1972. Was Chair and then President of the Heath & Old Hampstead Society.
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Peggy Jay
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Samuel Palmer fountain - re-opened
This drinking fountain was restored by The Heath & Old Hampstead Society ...
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Thomas Neale MP
Entrepreneur, the organiser of England's first lottery. Known as 'The Great Projector' although the layout of the Seven Dials area is his only surviving London project. Neal Street and Neal's Yard...
1 memorial
1 memorial
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland
Led the government of the under-age King Edward VI 1550-3, and on his death unsuccessfully attempted to install Lady Jane Grey and her husband (his son) Lord Guilford Dudley on the throne.  Execute...
1 memorial
Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet
MP, Secretary of State for the Colonies 1855. Â Born Upper Brook Street. 1835 financed the launch of publication, the London Review and its merger with the Westminster Review. Co-founder of the Refo...
1 memorial
Horace Maybray King
The first member of the Labour Party to become Speaker of the House of Commons.
1 memorial
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