Born Shropshire. As a student worked as a bus conductor then joined a bus company and worked his way up until he was Chief Executive of the Go Ahead bus company. Appointed OBE for services to transport in 2006.
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Chris Moyes
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Sir Thomas More
Born Milk Street. In conflict with Henry VIII over religion he was imprisoned in the tower, found guilty of treason and beheaded on Tower Hill. Final words: "The King's good servant, but God's Firs...
Person, Execution, Literature, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous
16 memorials
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
Bryan Edward Toye
Alderman on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
1 memorial
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin
Founder of the USSR. Born and died in Russia. Political theorist and Communist revolutionary. Reviewing a book on Lenin in the Observer, 23 October 2016, Nigel Jones wrote: "... once in power Lenin...
6 memorials
G. W. Howlett
Councillor on the Committee for the 1901 Shoreditch Town Hall Extension.
1 memorial
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Geological Society of London
The first geological society in the world, inaugurated in The Freemasons' Tavern. Founded by 13 men having dinner on Friday the 13th. Is this why the earth is in such a mess?
3 memorials
Dr. John Snow
Pioneer anaesthetist and epidemiologist. Born North Street in York. The site given as the source for the picture of Snow is an excellent site.
6 memorials
Arandora Star
Deporting Italian and German prisoners of war the cruise ship was between Liverpool and Canada when it was struck by a torpedo from a German submarine. Of the 734 Italians on board, 486 died. Of th...
1 memorial
2 memorials
Rifleman Thomas Albert Henn
Thomas Albert Henn was born on 20 April 1876 in Penge, Surrey (later Kent and now Greater London), a son of William Charles Henn (1855-1898) and Mary Ellen Henn née Adams (1852-1922). His birth was...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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