Pastor and philatelist. He had been a collector of stamps for most of his life, but his collections and library were lost when his house was looted by members of the occupying Russian army. His collection of 1945-1946 local provisional German stamps issued following the allied occupation forms part of the British Library Philatelic Collections, and was donated to the British Museum in 1956.
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Dr Walther Model von Thunen
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Building, Museums / Libraries, Politics & Administration, Property
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Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Museums / Libraries, Politics & Administration
Physician, benefactor of the British Museum and an early benefactor to the Chelsea Physic Garden. Responsible for the addition of milk to chocolate to produce a palatable drink. Born Killyleagh, Ir...
Person, Benefactor, Medicine, Museums / Libraries, Race Issues, Science, Ireland
Opened the Subway Gallery in 2006.
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Mark Thomas Green was born circa 1887 in Islington, Middlesex (now Greater London), one of the eight children of Mark Green (1848-1935) and Annie Ophelia Green née Talboys (1846-1920). In the Apr...
More than 230,000 people died, 153 being British.
Event, Tragedy, Africa, Burma, India, Indian Sub-continent, Indonesia, Malaysia, Southeast Asia
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