Politician. Born Nottinghamshire. An albino, he suffered poor and deteriorating eyesight so emigrated to Australia  in 1841 in the hope of making a quick fortune before going blind.  There he established himself as a lawyer and newspaper writer. Returned to England in 1850, wrote for The Times and became an MP. Home Secretary under Gladstone. His proposal to impose a tax on matches failed.  Keen on physical activities, according to , while out cycling in Kenley he fatally injured a greengrocer.  His first marriage was unhappy.  Only 4 months after her death he married again, to Caroline.  No children from either marriage.  Died at home, Sherbrooke Lodge, Warlingham.
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Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke
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Viscount Sherbrooke bust
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Henry White
Trustee of the Lambeth Hayles Estate development in 1894.
1 memorial
M Digby Wyatt
Secretary to the Executive Committee for the Great Exhibition 1851.Architect and writer on art. Born near Devizes, Wiltshire. Died Dimlands Castle, Glamorgan.
1 memorial
Richard Saunders, Deputy
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
1 memorial
Barbara Tuge-Erecinska
Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in 2011.
1 memorial
J. E. Stanley Lewis
Born in Ottawa. Â Ottawa's longest serving mayor, 1936 to 1948. Â The photo shows him in 1946 the year of the planting of the tree that he gifted but we don't think he was at the event.
1 memorial
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