The bookseller and author who, in 1763, introduced Dr Samuel Johnson to James Boswell at his house in Russell Street. He took to bookselling after failing as an actor.
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Thomas Davies
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Boswell and Johnson
In this house, occupied by Thomas Davies, bookseller, Dr Samuel Johnson first...
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William Whiteley
Entrepreneur and founder of Whiteley's department store on Queensway, now Whiteleys shopping centre. A bequest from his will formed Whiteley Village. Born in Yorkshire and, 1848, apprenticed to a ...
3 memorials
Surrey Docks
The south bank of the Thames used to be in Surrey, now in Southwark. The first dock created here in 1696 was initially named Howland Great Wet Dock and then Greenland Dock due to the whaling ships ...
11 memorials
1 memorial
John Kemp-Welch
Say what you like about estate agents, they are sometimes extremely helpful when trying to identify people of property from the past. Courtenays have published some of the history of the Clapham Ab...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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