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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Sir Marcus Samuel
Victoria died on 22 January 1901, less than a year after this last visit to t...
From City of London : The Pool of London Partnership was established in 1996 and operated in an area stretching East from London Bridge to the Butler's Wharf / St. Katherine's Dock area and include...
12 - 13 Poultry. Built in 1870, designed by J. &Â J. Belcher. Was demolished after a long campaign in 1994 to make way for the delights of Number 1, Poultry. The man responsible, Lord Palumbo, ...
On his father's death in 1891 he became head of the family firm of W.H. Smith and Son and also took over as MP for the Strand Division, until 1910. Chairman of King's College Hospital. Became 2nd V...
1638 King Charles I gave a licence for flesh, fowl and roots to be sold on Spittle Fields. The market lapsed during the Commonwealth but it was re-founded in 1682 by King Charles II. The existing ...
100,000 costermongers' donkeys worked in and around the market. Â The picture source says: "In the 1860s there were as many as 2,000 donkey barrows on a Saturday morning in Covent Garden Market."
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