Merchant, slave trader, and diplomat. Born Scotland. 1746 he moved to London and began his own business initially in tobacco but quickly moved into the slave trade. His London base was at Philpot Lane. An important business associate in America was Henry Laurens.
His knowledge of trade with North America meant he became an advisor to the British government and in 1783 was a British negotiator for the Treaty of Paris.
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Richard Oswald
The spelling is probably a good indication of which country funded this memor...
Councillor on the Committee for the 1901 Shoreditch Town Hall Extension.
Born as Lois Janet Lipkin in July 1936, the daughter of Herbert Hyman Lipkin (1901-1975) and Sadie Lipkin née Clein (1908-1961). Her birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1936 in the Wallasey ...
Berlin has a mayor and an executive making up the Senat, similar to the Greater London Authority.
Originally part of the parish of Edmonton. In 1881 Southgate Local Board was established and became an Urban District in 1894. Became a municipal borough in 1933, and remained so until the London G...
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