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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Liberal Party
Founded at a meeting in Almack's / Willis's Rooms, when 280 Whig, Liberal, former Peelite and radical MPs met to agree on a strategy to remove Lord Derby's Conservative government. The Guardian re...
1 memorial
First United Nations General Assembly
Held in in the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster. Eleanor Roosevelt was a delegate at this and subsequent assemblies. The small triangle of grass to the immediate west of Central Hall, Westminst...
2 memorials
1 memorial
Hugh William McGlashon
Despite the 1872 year of birth shown on the plaque on McGlashon House in Hunton Street, London, E1, Hugh William McGlashon was born on 10 February 1873, in Limehouse, the third of the six children ...
1 memorial
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford
Statesman. Harley Street was named after him. Responsible for the creation of the South Sea company and was the first governor. This company later became a major player in the Atlantic slave trade.
1 memorial
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