Subject: James Russell Lowell
Born 22/2/1819, 206 years ago
American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat.
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Subject: Charles Lyell
Died 22/2/1875, 150 years ago
Born at Kinnordy House, near Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. Geologist. A practicing lawyer, deliberately working all over the country so he could study the local geology. His multi-volume "Principles...
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Subject: Alexandra Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
Born 22/2/1900, 125 years ago
From Blenheim Palace Marlborough Family Tree we learn that Alexandra Mary Cadogan, daughter of Viscount Chelsea married the 10th Duke of Marlborough in 1921 and died in 1961, before the Duke. So s...
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Memorial: Rainbow Corner
Erected 22/2/1948, 77 years ago
WC2, Shaftesbury Avenue, 23
We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling and this Newspaper Archive report from the Nor...
2 subjects commemorated
Subject: David Brand Roberts
Born 22/2/1964, 61 years ago
Killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 35. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: David Brand Roberts was born on 22 February 1964. He lived in Wiltshire and died, aged 35...
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Subject: Reverend Sydney Smith
Died 22/2/1845, 180 years ago
Wit, for example "I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so." Born Woodford, London. Died at home in Green Street, London.
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Subject: Rev. H. A. Squire
Born 22/2/1825, 200 years ago
Rev. Henry Augustus Squire, an itinerant preacher. Founding President (for 21 years) of the Old Baptist Union. Born Hertford. Died Stoke Newington. Henry Squire was a Baptist minister in England i...
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Memorial: Stanleys' Golden Wedding clock tower
Erected 22/2/1907, 118 years ago
SE25, Station Road
Erected by the inhabitants of South Norwood to commemorate the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Stanley of Cumberlow, South Norwood, ...
4 subjects commemorated
Subject: Sir Leslie Stephen
Died 22/2/1904, 121 years ago
Scholar, writer and mountaineer. Born in Kensington Gore, (now 42 Hyde Park Gate). Father of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. He became an Anglican clergyman but later renounced his religious belie...
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Subject: Lionel Tertis
Died 22/2/1975, 50 years ago
Virtuoso violist. Born in West Hartlepool. Initially he studied the violin in Leipzig and at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He was encouraged to take up the viola instead, and rapidly became o...
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