Oliver Heaviside
Born in Camden Town. Aged 12 the family could no longer afford to send him to school so he continued studying on his own. Thus he was largely self-taught, no secondary education or university. In ...
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Sir John Anderson
Engineer. Born at 19 Barron Street, Woodside, Aberdeen. On moving to London, he was seconded to the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. Here he was responsible for many innovations, and for mechanising and au...
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Barbara Everest
Film actor. Born in Southfields, London. Her career spanned over fifty years. Played Elizabeth the servant in Gaslight (1944). Her day of birth is given as 19 or 9, depending on source.
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey III
Son of Marcus Garvey. Became an electrical engineer and served as the seventh president-general of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League which his father had fo...
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Sir Parker Morris
Sir George Parker Morris was Westminster's Town Clerk in 1951. 1960 founded the charity HACT. He led the Parker Morris Committee which drew up an influential 1961 report on housing space standards ...
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Councillor Miss Paton Walsh
Chairman of Westminster's Housing Committee: 1950-1. 1964 the Conservative Miss P. C. Paton Walsh was elected onto the newly formed Westminster City Council Source: Wikipedia.
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Councillor Alfred Harris
Chairman of Westminster's Housing Committee: 1949-50.
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Alderman C. P. Russell
Chairman of Westminster's Housing Committee 1945-9.
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Albert Sciver
Albert "Bill" Sciver was a chemist, bacteriologist and a local politician. Resident of Dolphin Square. 1938 elected to Westminster Council. 1952-3 served as Mayor. Source: London ...
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Rev. H. A. Squire
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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