Silk printer, pugilist, publican and property developer, active in the mid-1800s. Son of a prominent Summerstown family. He ran a local beer house, The Sir Jeffrey Dunstan at 47 Summerstown, and in the mid nineteenth century developed Althorp Lodge into a leisure and sporting centre. See there for more information.
His headstone in Wandsworth Cemetery reads: ‘A man who was loved by all, despised by none'.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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