Diplomat. Attended Eton, 1871-7. See his brother Francis for family information. Married an American heiress Antoinette Pinchot.
His job took him to Denmark, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Luxembourg. Uncle to Dennis Wheatley's second wife, the author put Johnstone, as "a courtly diplomat of the old school", into his novel 'The Second Seal' (1950).
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Sir Alan Johnstone
This Boat House was given to the Club by Gilbert Johnstone, the youngest of 9...
Born Olave Soames in Derbyshire. 1912 met Robert Baden-Powell on a trans-Atlantic ocean liner. They discovered that they shared a birthday, even if they were 32 years apart. This didn’t stop them m...
One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
A Barnardo's home, also referred to as Sheppard's House. It was established around 1887 at 182 Grove Road, E3. Its address is sometimes given as 180 Grove Road, so may have expanded into the neighb...
Social reformer and minister. Born in Settle, Yorkshire. Whilst working in the slums of Greenwich, he became appalled at the deprivations and cruelties suffered by children. He wrote 'The Gaol Crad...
Artist, writer and sheep breeder. Born Helen Beatrix Potter at 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington where she lived in the third floor nursery until she was in her thirties. She used her second name ...
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