"Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster" - first line in Shakespeare's Richard II. Fourth son of Edward III. Younger brother to the Black Prince. Uncle to Richard II. Born in Ghent. Lived at the Palace of the Savoy 1362 - 1381. Through his first wife's inheritance became the richest nobleman in England. His third wife was Chaucer's wife's sister. Powerful military leader and virtual regent for Richard II. Died Leicester Castle, aged 59, so not really that old.
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John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
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Savoy - feathers
SH Here, John of Valois, King of France, when brought to England as a captiv...
Savoy - flowers
SH In the Palace of the Savoy lived for many months Simon de Montfort, found...
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George Adam Sheldon
JP and Chairman of Bexley Urban District Council 1909-1917. George Adam Sheldon was born in 1855 in Bexley Heath, Kent, the eldest of the seven children of William Sheldon (1835-1887) and Martha S...
1 memorial
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners
Formed in 1984 by Mark Ashton and his friend Mike Jackson, this group was only wound down in 2015. The London group used the bookshop Gay's the Word as their HQ. The largest fund-raising event was ...
1 memorial
D. Meinertzhagen
Daniel Meinertzhagen VI. Head of the Frederick Huth merchant bank, as his father had been before him. Treasurer of the committee that built the extension to the German Hospital, which, given his we...
1 memorial
Edmund William Richardson
Company Secretary of the Planet Building Society. c.1871 he demolished the old Friary House and built the present house in which he lived until his death. British History Online details some prop...
1 memorial
Edwin Willmott Sloper
A Trustee of Alexandra Park from 1902 and Honorary Manager from June 1910 until his death in March 1921. Mayor of Hornsey 1907-8 and again in 1913-1914. In 1919 he was elected a fellow and member ...
1 memorial
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Dr Alfred Salter
Doctor and politician. Born at 23 South Street, Greenwich. Following his Quaker principles, he gave up a potentially brilliant medical career in order to tend the sick and needy in Bermondsey. He a...
7 memorials
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