Mary, Duchess of Montagu
Daughter of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. She married John Montagu in 1705.
Joseph Payne
Lived in a cottage in Highgate West Hill, a deputy assistant judge, a zealous total abstainer, supporter of Bands of Hope. We have still to collect another of his fountains in Albert Terrace. Temp...
Peasants' Revolt
The revolt grew out of the increasing severity of the poll taxes imposed on the people of England. The Kentish rebels led by Wat Tyler met with those from Essex at Blackheath. It was here that the ...
Henry Perfect
A con-man who was fond of impersonating vicars, and is said to have often rented rooms upstairs at the George, Fleet Street.
William Robert Perry
Andrew Behan has researched Perry: William Robert Perry was born on 1 May 1825 in Stoke Newington, a son of Thomas Walter Perry and Sarah Perry, née Stamp. His father was a Mercantile Agent who in ...
Augustus Pitt-Rivers
Army officer, anthropologist and archaeologist. Born as Augustus Henry Lane Fox at Hope Hall, Bramham, Yorkshire. He changed his name to Pitt-Rivers on inheriting the estates of his cousin Horace P...
