This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Worshipful Company of Cordwainers
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Cordwainers' Hall
On this site stood six successive Livery Halls of the Cordwainers' Company fr...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Worshipful Company of Cordwainers
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Cordwainer statue
{On the front of the plinth a plaque informs:} The Cordwainer You are in th...
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Longman's Ship Binding Works
Thomas Longman (1699-1755) through an inheritance acquired a publishing house, The Ship, in Paternoster Row (the street of book publishers) and shortly after, The Black Swan, next door. Daniel Defo...
British Telecom
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Thomas Davies
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.
Lord Wandsworth
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