Statesman. Harley Street was named after him.
Responsible for the creation of the South Sea company and was the first governor. This company later became a major player in the Atlantic slave trade.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford
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Pepys, Harley, Etty, Stanfield
In a house formerly standing on this site lived Samuel Pepys, 1633 - 1703, di...
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Captain John Bouchier
Naval officer. On 15 February 1783 he was court-martialled, along with his officers and crew, on the Warspite in Portsmouth harbour for having lost the ship the Hector. They were all honourably a...
1 memorial
Field Marshall Earl Alexander of Tunis
Military commander. Born London of Anglo-Irish descent. Served in both world wars. A keen artist (painter and sculptor) as well as a excellent sportsman. We note this because these two attributes a...
1 memorial
Robert Hollond
Balloonist and politician. Born London to a wealthy Bengal civil servant. Financed the 1836 balloon voyage from Vauxhall Gardens to Weilburg in Germany, on which he was a passenger. This set a reco...
1 memorial
Alec Roy
Roy was Chair of the Lee Valley Park 1981-6. We can't find any information on him so we looked into the Park instead. The Park is huge, 10,000 acres, more than four times the size of Richmond Park...
1 memorial
Martin Sugarman
Chair Hackney-Haifa Twinning Association and co-chair, with councillor Linda Kelly, of the Britain and Israel Olympic Plaque Committee. In 2021 Sugarman was working with the Association of Jewish ...
2 memorials
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