Born near the Kennington Oval but his family returned to Yorkshire when he was very young and he saw himself as a Yorkshireman. In 1908 he joined Waddingtons, a printing firm which developed a specialism in playing cards and in the '30s moved into jigsaws for which there was a craze. Was responsible for acquiring the rights to Monopoly.
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Victor Hugo Watson
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Co-op bank - Monoploy
Victor and Marjorie came to London from Leeds specifically to select names fo...
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M Digby Wyatt
Secretary to the Executive Committee for the Great Exhibition 1851.Architect and writer on art. Born near Devizes, Wiltshire. Died Dimlands Castle, Glamorgan.
1 memorial
Second Congress of the Communist League
At this meeting Karl Marx (attending as delegate of the Brussels Circle) and Frederick Engels (representing the Paris communities) were commissioned to write an action programme for the Communist L...
1 memorial
Charles Joye
Treasurer and a governor of Guys Hospital and of St Thomas's Hospital. At Guy's he was on the committee to erect the statue to Guy and in his will he left money for the brass statue of Edward VI at...
1 memorial
H. Oughton
Co-churchwarden of Chelsea Old Church in 1882. In 1884 he was named on a tablet inside the church, still a co-churchwarden.
1 memorial
Councillor G. Buckmaster
Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, 1926.
1 memorial
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