1569-1570 Master of the Clothworkers' Company. Three wives but childless which allowed for his philanthropy. 1564-1577 he financed the rebuilding of the Holborn Conduit which, until its demolition in 1746, supplied water to the City from a spring near what is now Lamb's Conduit Street.
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William Lambe
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All Hallows tower and Lambe's Chapel
This is visually just a modern information board but the information is more ...
William Lambe - EC2
{Between two emblems of the Clothworkers' Company:} 8 - 10 Moorgate This land...
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Lambs Conduit pump
Lambs Conduit the property of the City of London this pump is erected for the...
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Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1st Baronet)
MP, brewer, slave abolitionist and social reformer. Born Essex. Entered the Brick Lane brewery Truman, Hanbury & Company in 1808, eventually taking on sole ownership. 1807 married Hannah Gurney...
3 memorials
1 memorial
Rules Restaurant
London's oldest restaurant. Opened by Thomas Rule primarily as an oyster bar. It specialises in game and owns the Lartington Estate in the High Pennines. The restaurant stayed in the Rule family un...
1 memorial
Crosskey's Inn
In the late 1500s plays were performed in the inn-yard. The Inn was destroyed in the Great Fire.
1 memorial
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Lady Margaret Butler-Charteris
Daughter of the Scots Richard Butler, 2nd Earl of Glengall (1794 – 1858) and wife, then widow, to the Irish Richard Charteris (1822 – 1874). She was the eldest daughter and heir to her father. Th...
1 memorial
Sir John Lyon
Sir John Lyon was a wealthy City merchant and a grocer, and Lord Mayor of London 1554-5. He was first cousin to John Lyon who founded The John Lyon School.
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
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Lieutenant-General Charles Fleetwood
Fought on the anti-royalist side in the Civil War. In 1652 he married for the second time to Bridget, Cromwell's daughter and widow of Henry Ireton. That same year he was appointed Lord Deputy of I...
1 memorial
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