London Bridge station
One of the world's oldest train stations, it opened as part of the London and Greenwich Railway. By the early 21st century it had become distinctly tatty, and 2009-17 it underwent a complete transf...
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William Isaac Palmer
Manufacturer and philanthropist. Member of the Palmer family in the Huntley and Palmer biscuit company. He funded a free library in Reading. In 1876, he purchased Hoxton Hall in Hackney on behalf o...
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Joseph Allen Baker
Engineer and politician. Born at Maple Ridge Farm in Trenton, Ontario. He came to London in 1878 and with his brothers, established a company specialising in machinery for the confectionery and bak...
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Olive Christian Malvery
Born in Lahore in the Punjab to parents of European and Indian ancestry, Thomas Barber Malvery and Jessie Anderson. She came to London in 1900 and trained as a singer at The Royal College of Music....
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Music / songs, Philanthropy, India
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Archibald Mackirdy
US diplomat, for 27 years the United States Consul at Muscat, Persia. What little we can discover about him is as an adjunct to his wife Olive Christian Malvery. They had three children: Flora Mac...
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Harold Ridley
Ophthalmologist. Born Nicholas Harold Lloyd Ridley in Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire. Died in Salisbury, Wiltshire. In WW2, he treated Royal Air Force casualties with eye injuries. He noticed t...
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Mother Kate
Mother Superior of St Saviours Priory at the time that the community moved from East Grinstead onto the Dunloe Street site, in 1866. When she died in 1923 a memorial fund was created to help comple...
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Charles Braithwaite
Chairman of the Lewisham Group Hospital Management Committee in 1958.
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John Tasker
Secretary of the Lewisham Group Hospital Management Committee in 1958.
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Patrick and Pauline Weil
Husband and wife from Sierra Leone, who made their home in London. Deceased in or before 2022.
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