AOP, Another Orkney Production
We know that AOP produced the Jellicoe plaques in c.2017, but apart from that we can find nothing. At a guess - they produce things and they are based in Orkney.
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Maxwell Ayrton
Architect. Born Ormrod Maxwell Ayrton. His best known work was the former Wembley Stadium, designed with Sir John Simpson, which was originally part of the British Empire Exhibition. He was a pione...
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Joanna Baillie
Poet and dramatist, born Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Moved into Bolton House with her mother and sister in 1791 and lived there until her death. Buried at nearby St John's church, Church Row.
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John Logie Baird
Born in "The Lodge" in Helensburgh, near Glasgow. Inventor of mechanical television. Picture of him demonstrating a prototype at Selfridges, 1925. Died in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.
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Alderman John Scott Balfour
Mayor of Hornsey 1906-07 and 1912-13. From Stones of Haringey: "Born in Cupar {Scotland} he came to London in the early 1860s and rose to become the managing director of iron merchants Croggon &am...
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Lord Balmerino
Jacobite. Taken prisoner at the Battle of Culloden. Tried and beheaded on the Tower Hill scaffold.
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Sir J. M. Barrie
Playwright and novelist. Born Kirriemuir, Scotland. Moved to London, Bloomsbury, in 1885 for his writing career. Less than 5 foot tall he was not very successful with women and developed a habit of...
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F. R. Barry
Francis Renton Barry was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, a son of the Reverend Francis Renton Barry (1853-1926) and Marion Laidlaw Barry née Thompson (1858-1920). His father was a Presbyterian Minister...
War dead, WW1
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