Close friend of King James I. Dutch Ambassador to the court, 1609-24. 1602–3 Elizabeth granted him a house in South Lambeth where he lived until his death. From t we think this house was about where Vauxhall Grove now is. In 1620, having made money in England, he, founded almshouses, in what is now Wandsworth Road, for seven poor women, leaving their support as a charge on his property by will of 1625.
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Sir Noel Caron
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Caron almshouses
At about the time that Evans gave the land for these almshouses he was confin...
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William Ford Robinson Stanley
Inventor, manufacturer and philanthropist. Born William Ford Robinson Stanley in Islington. He filed 78 patents for precision drawing, mathematical and surveying instruments, as well as telescopes....
Person, Architecture, Art, Engineering, Literature, Philanthropy
5 memorials
Julia, Countess of Ducie
Wife of Henry Reynolds-Moreton, Third Earl of Ducie. There is no portrait and virtually no other information available about her, so we have used a picture of the monument to her in Tortworth Churc...
1 memorial
Robert Hanbury
Nephew to Sampson Hanbury (1769-1835) from a family of Quaker merchants, bankers and brewers. Â Sampson had taken on the brewery in Brick Lane which had been there since the 17th century. Robert joi...
1 memorial
Leonard Montefiore
Author and philanthropist. Leonard Abraham Montefiore was born Kensington. Â Grand nephew to Moses. Â Was a friend of Oscar Wilde when they were both at Oxford University. Â Chief assistant to Samuel ...
1 memorial
Sir Robert Geffrye
Alderman, merchant and slave trader. From Cornwall, possibly Landrake. DOB uncertain. A member of the Ironmongers' Company and Lord Mayor, 1685-6. Married but produced no children and his wife pred...
Person, Lord Mayor, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Race Issues
1 memorial
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