This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
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5 - Bolt Court – The Sun
Bolt Court The Sun {A facsimile of a page of the paper.} Tuesday 15 September...
St james's Garden - people of London - wood
The garden on this bomb-damaged site was given by the late Viscount Southwood...
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Henry Mayhew
Social researcher and journalist. Born London. Joint founding editor with Mark Lemon, of the magazine 'Punch' and author of 'London Labour and the London Poor'. Born into a wealthy London family,...
William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount
Born New York City into an extremely wealthy family. Lived in Rome in his mid-thirties where he developed a life-long taste for the arts. On his father’s death in 1890 he built the luxury Waldorf...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Philanthropy, Property, Italy, USA
William Thomas Stead
Campaigning journalist and spiritualist. Born Northumberland. Committed to the peace movement, women's rights, civil liberties. As part of his campaign against juvenile prostitution he 'bought' 12 ...
Person, Gender Issues, Journalism / Publishing, Paranormal, Peace, Tragedy
Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Explorer and journalist, born as John Rowlands at Denbigh, Wales. Illegitimate and brought up in a workhouse, he sailed to America as a cabin boy in 1859. He befriended a trader called Henry Hope S...
Person, Exploring, Journalism / Publishing, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Africa, USA, Wales
Proprietors of the Quiver
The Quiver was "a magazine for Sunday and general reading" published around 1876-1925 in New York and London.
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Denys Mitchell
Sculptor. Buy Design reports that Mitchell died in August 2015.
Teddington Studios - David Nixon
TW11, Broom Road, Teddington Studios
July 2015 The Mirror reported that 4 of these plaques (Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper, Sid James and Irene Handl) were stolen just prior to the...
David Cassidy
Actor, singer and songwriter. Born in New York, son of actor Jack Cassidy. He became a teenage idol playing Keith Partridge in the television musical show 'The Partridge Family'. He found it diffic...
Person, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, Theatre, TV & Radio, USA
Tour de France
Multiple stage bicycle race, which has been held annually (apart from the world wars) since its inception. Its first organiser was Henri Desgrange, and originally it ran around the perimeter of Fra...
Charles Dickens
Born, son of Elizabeth and John Dickens, at No.1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, Portsmouth (where there is a museum). For a map showing many of his London addresses see Londonist. His family were so p...
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