This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Bradbury & Evans
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Bradbury & Evans
Oh, dear, what is happening to the City plaques? This one looks really cheap...
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Punch magazine
Founded in early June 1841 at a meeting at the Edinburgh Castle public house in the Strand, attended by Henry Mayhew, brewery manager Mark Lemon, and engraver Ebenezer Landells. The first issue wa...
S Carter Hall
On the Executive Committee for the 1851 Great Exhibition Memorial.Journal editor and writer.Born Geneva barracks, Co. Waterford, Ireland. Died 24 Stanford Road, Kensington.
Sir Arthur Pearson
Newspaper publisher and philanthropist. Born in Wookey, Somerset. In 1898 he founded the Daily Express, which was innovative in printing news instead of adverts on its front page. When he started t...
William Rees-Mogg
Editor of The Times 1967-81. Also High Sheriff of Somerset in the late 1970s. Chairman of the Arts Council in the 1980s. Vice-Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors. In 1988 he became Baron Rees-Mo...
Leonard Woolf
Author and publisher. Born Leonard Sidney Woolf in Kensington. After working in the Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) Civil Service, he returned to Britain where he met and married Virginia Stephen. Together ...
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Bankers Clearing House - 7
EC4, Lombard Street, Post Office Court
At the north end of Post Office Court, attached to the west wall adjoining St Mary Woolnoth, are six salvaged carved panels. We have numb...
George Orwell
George Orwell was born in Bengal as Eric Arthur Blair, his father was a British colonial civil servant. Joined the Indian imperial police in Burma but left in 1927 and decided to become a writer. ...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Seriously Famous, TV & Radio, Bengal, Burma, France, India, Spain
Dr. Keningale Robert Cook, LL.D
Keningale Robert Cook was born on 26 September 1845 in Smallbridge, Rochdale, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), a son of Robert Keningale Cook (1812-1891) and Ellen Cook née Nield (1823-1909). H...
Charlton House mulberry tree - 3
SE7, Charlton Road, Charlton House
The plaques are on the ground at the foot of the tree. The tree is one of several which are reputed to be the oldest in Britain. The buil...
King Richard I
Richard the Lionheart. Born Oxford, son of Henry II. King of England 6 July 1189 - death. Also ruled parts of France. More French than English, he spent much of his live in Southern Europe, mainly...
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