Barrister, Liberal MP, Postmaster General 1892-5. From Ornamental Passions:
Morley has gone down in history for a staggeringly wrong assessment of the market potential of a new technology. In in 1895 he told the House of Commons: "There is a great distinction between telephone companies and gas and water companies. Gas and water are requisites for every inhabitant in a district, but the telephone cannot, and never will be, an advantage which can be enjoyed by large masses of the working classes." Wrong and sneering. Brilliant.
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Arnold Morley
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Arnold Morley keystone
Morley opened this building. With the pupil-less eyes this looks like a death...
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Samuel Bourne Bevington
VD, JP. Son of James Bevington. A member of the Bermondsey leather manufacturing dynasty and a philanthropist. Colonel commanding 3rd Volunteer Battalion The Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment 18...
3 memorials
Choi Wankeun
Vice Minister of Patriots & Veterans Affairs of the Republic of Korea in 2014.
1 memorial
Simon de Montfort's Parliament of 1265
Simon de Montfort, having seized power from King Henry III, called a Parliament with a wider representation catchment than the usual knights and barons; he summoned representatives of cities and bo...
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Hamilton T. Smith
Furniture designer, founding member of the Design and Industries Association and director of Heals.
1 memorial
John Compton Lawrance, QC, MP
High Court Judge. Came from Lincolnshire. From Plymounth Law Review we learn: "John Lawrance was Conservative MP for South Lincolnshire for ten years, from 1880 to 1890, until his appointment as ...
1 memorial
Previously viewed
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War served, WW2
1 memorial
Miss Marple
Miss Jane Marple, village spinster detective, created by Agatha Christie. Played by many actors, including: Gracie Fields, Margaret Rutherford, Angela Lansbury and Joan Hickson.
1 memorial
8 Grenville Street
The Marchmont Association thoroughly research their plaques and they found some interesting information about Barrie’s home: “Barrie (1937) writes (in the third person) about his first residences ...
1 memorial
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