A Huguenot refugee from Dieppe. He, along with his family and a French minister were killed by a massive gunpowder explosion at the Temple Mills in Leyton in 1690. puts the explosion "on the night before Easter 1690". And gives 26 March 1690 as Easter Sunday.
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Peter Pain
Erected between June 2014 and June 2015. Lost between April 2019 and March 2...
Industrialist and inventor. From Preston. Set up a factory with a newly designed method of cotton-spinning. He worked his employees, including children, very hard and became very rich.
Manufactured in a house at the north end of Lawrence Street SW3, 1745-1784. The factory was founded by two Frenchmen, Charles Gouyn, a goldsmith and Nicholas Sprimont, a silversmith. It was the fir...
Professional boxer from Canning Town who worked in the Royal Docks.
American chemist, inventor and industrialist. Born Pennsylvania. Â Initially worked with Edison. Companies he founded include: Carborundum, Inc., UCar International, and Acheson Industries. Â In abou...
Founded by the brothers George and Henry Elkington in Birmingham. In 1840 they were the first to patent a method that used an electric current to coat an item in a  thin layer of metal (normally si...
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