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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Brigadier-General Sir George Henry Gater, GCMG, KCB, DSO & Bar, JP
Army officer and civil servant. Trained as a teacher. Moved to London in 1924, and became Director of Education at the LCC. 1933 became Clerk to the LCC. He advocated the development of Bloomsbury ...
1 memorial
Sir Christopher Collett
Chairman of the Temple Bar Trust, 1993 - 2004. Lord Mayor of London in 1989. The picture comes from his niece's obituary webpage.
3 memorials
1 memorial
Borough of St Marylebone
Created in 1900 from the parish of St Marylebone. In 1965 it joined Paddington, and Westminster to form the City of Westminster.
4 memorials
S. J. Warren
Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1900-1945. Commander in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
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