Born Seymour Place. Educated Harrow School. Twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Father of 13 children that survived infancy, including Claud John Hamilton. Died at home in Northern Ireland.
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James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn
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Harrow School - Speech Room
The first stone of the new Speech Room was laid by His Grace the Duke of Aber...
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Frederic Edward Hilleary
Frederic Edward Hilleary was born on 13 December 1841 in Stratford, Essex, the son of Gustavus Edward Hilleary (1806-1890) and Susan Hilleary née Mount (1820-1903). On 12 January 1842 he was baptis...
2 memorials
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Politician. Born Dublin to a land-owning politician. Entered government in 1798, first in Ireland, and then from 1801 in Westminster. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1812 - 22. 1821 became ...
1 memorial
Embassy of the United States
The first US Minister to the Court of St James, John Adams, rented No 9 Grosvenor Square in 1785. After that the American Embassy in London was situated variously in Great Cumberland Place, Piccadi...
3 memorials
Richard Coppock
Trade unionist and politician. Labour politician for Limehouse in the LCC. Parks Chairman in 1934. Elected in Limehouse 1937. Chairman of the Highways Committee of the LCC in 1937. LCC Chairman in ...
1 memorial
Sir Joseph Savory, MP
Born Clapton. Alderman on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894. Lord Mayor of London 1890-1.
1 memorial
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African National Congress
London headquarters of the African National Congress, 1978 - 1994 were at 28 Penton Street.
1 memorial
Nobel House - Berthelot
SW1, Smith Square, 17, Nobel House
Nobel House is in the south-east of this square, mainly facing north but with a short west-facing facade. The portrait keystones are both...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Jean Adebambo
British singer, best known for songs in the lovers rock genre. Born Islington. It is believed she died by suicide, at her Leytonstone home.
1 memorial
Marcus Garvey
Pan-African nationalist leader. Born Marcus Mosiah Garvey in St Ann's Bay, Jamaica. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1914 to foster worldwide black unity, and moved its hea...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Jamaica, USA
5 memorials
Thames Tunnel Flood - 1828
During construction, the tunnel was flooded on six separate occasions the worst being the second flooding, on 12 January 1828, in which six workmen died. "Near shift change. Isambard was in the sh...
1 memorial