Administrator and businessman. He held several positions on the former London County Council, including Chairman from 1902 - 1903. In most sources his name is spelt as McDougall. He was one of the flour producing family which developed a substitute for yeast that revolutionised home baking.
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Sir John MacDougall
There is an identical plaque at the entrance to the tunnel on the south bank ...
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Westminster office of the penny post and then the two-penny post. The first office of the penny post in London that ran in a dedicated building rather than within a stationer or other business. T...
Lord George Cavendish, the future Earl of Burlington, commissioned the architect Samuel Ware to design this covered shopping arcade. He also founded the Burlington Arcade Beadles, recruited from hi...
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From British History Online we learn: The 'Hackney and Kingsland Gazette' was launched in 1864. The sons of the printer, Charles Potter, formed Potter Bros Ltd in 1920 and changed the title to 'Ha...
James Hadley Chase, 1906 - 1985, author, was born here with the name René Brabazon Raymond. Ealing Civic Society
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