dissolution of the monasteries
In 1534, for reasons not only to do with his marital situation, Henry VIII broke with Rome, the Pope and the Catholic Church. At the time the Catholic monasteries (and abbeys, priories, convents an...
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Monmouth House
The Duke of Monmouth obtained a site on the south side of Soho Square (then called King’s Square) in 1681 on which the house was built. After his execution it was owned by the Bateman family and be...
Montague House
Named after the first Duke of Montagu, it was the amalgamation of two late-seventeenth century houses with the addition of Park Corner House. The residence of Caroline of Brunswick, queen consort t...
Sir Charles Morgan
In 1792 Charles Gould (1726 – 1806), lawyer and politician, married Jane Morgan and in 1792 inherited her family’s property in Tredegar, Wales. At the same time he changed his name to Morgan and wa...
Thomas Morris
Builder of All Saints Church Poplar, 1822-23. He was a local builder and is buried in the churchyard. Information from Docklands Ringers.
Mulalley & Co Ltd
Building firm set up by the O'Malley family in 1972, based in Woodford Green.
Myddelton House
This site was previously occupied by an Elizabethan red-brick building known as Bowling Green House. In 1613 Hugh Myddelton, constructed the New River, the course of which bisected the land around ...