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Charles Hollis

Charles Hollis

Architect of All Saints Church and rectory, Poplar, 1823. Other work includes: St John the Baptist Church, Windsor, 1822. Docklands Ringers raise a puzzling query about All Saints Church Poplar: "...

Person, Architecture

2 memorials
Fernando Mendez

Fernando Mendez

Physician. Born Fernando Moses Mendez (or Mendes) in Beira, Portugal. Came to the assistance of Catherine of Braganza when she was taken ill in Spain, on her way to Portsmouth to become the wife of...

Person, Medicine, Portugal

1 memorial
Peter Pain

Peter Pain

A Huguenot refugee from Dieppe. He, along with his family and a French minister were killed by a massive gunpowder explosion at the Temple Mills in Leyton in 1690. Wikipedia puts the explosion "on ...

Person, Industry, Tragedy, France

1 memorial
George Jeffreys

George Jeffreys

Judge. First Baron Jeffreys, known as the 'Hanging Judge'. Born at Acton Park, near Wrexham in Denbighshire. He became Lord Chief Justice in 1683 and Lord Chancellor in 1685. Most famously, he pres...

Person, Law

1 memorial
William Grainger Wilson

William Grainger Wilson

William Grainger Wilson, 1919 - 2013 Grainger Wilson lived at the Hackney Almshouses for Disabled Soldiers & Sailors for 27 years, much of this time as Chairman of the Disabled Soldiers & S...

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration

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Sir Louis Stanley Johnson

Sir Louis Stanley Johnson

Solicitor and Conservative Party politician. Member of Hackney Council. Mayor of Hackney 1914-19. MP for  Walthamstow East 1918-24. Knighted 1920. Died by suicide with a gun to his head, at his hom...

Person, Politics & Administration, Tragedy

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George F. J. MacLeod

George F. J. MacLeod

George Francis James MacLeod. Manager of the Hackney Empire. Born in Chorlton in 1870, and married in Leeds in 1893, a commercial traveller in Potternewton, Leeds in 1901. Source: Wikimedia.

Person, Theatre

1 memorial
Councillor David Cunningham

Councillor David Cunningham

Conservative Councillor in Kingston 1994 - 2022.  Made an Honorary Alderman in 2022. Mayor of Kingston in 1998-99.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
J. D. D.

J. D. D.

Buried in the graveyard of St Andrews Holborn. Possibly connected with Gamages and / or Benetfink.

Person

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Barnett Lewis, GM

Barnett Lewis, GM

Air Raid Warden Barnett Lewis was awarded the George Medal for bravery. On 23 September 1940, during the WW2 Blitz a bomb fell on 3 shops and/or a pub (reports differ) in Manor Park, Newham, a few ...

Person, Other

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