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Person    | Male  Born 5/11/1853  Died 17/1/1927

Sir Marcus Samuel

Sir Marcus Samuel

Mayor of the City of London 1902 - 03. President of the committee for the 1903-05 Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women.

Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted, was a Lord Mayor of London and the founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, which was later restructured including a Netherlands-based company commonly referred to as Royal Dutch Shell.

Born Whitechapel.

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Queen Victoria visits The City

Victoria died on 22 January 1901, less than a year after this last visit to t...

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Tattersalls race horse auctioneers

Tattersalls race horse auctioneers

Founded at Hyde Park Corner by Richard Tattersall (1724–1795) it stayed in the Tattersall family until about WW2.  The business had to move from 'the Corner' due to the lease running out and the la...

Group, Commerce, Animals

1 memorial
Stocks Market

Stocks Market

The Stocks Market was where fishmongers and butchers sold their victuals. It took its name from a pair of stocks erected there in 1281 for the punishment of offenders. In 1738 the Mansion House was...

Building, Commerce

1 memorial
Barney Springer Ltd

Barney Springer Ltd

Trader at Covent Garden Market at its original site.

Group, Commerce

1 memorial
Sir Harry Arieh Simon Djanogly, CBE

Sir Harry Arieh Simon Djanogly, CBE

Textile manufacturer and philanthropist. His family fled from France after the Nazi occupation and he was naturalised as a British subject on 1 November 1948. In 1986 he merged his Nottingham Manuf...

Person, Commerce, Philanthropy, France

1 memorial
A. Dashwood

A. Dashwood

Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was on the building committee for the Bostall Estate in 1900.

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration

1 memorial