Son of the 2nd Marquess. Created Duke in 1874, mainly it seems for owning large chunks of London and being the head of the richest family in the UK. Country seat in Cheshire.
From this Calendar we know that in 1882 he was the President of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association.
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Duke of Westminster, 1st, Hugh Lupus Grosvenor
Hugh Lupus, first Duke of Westminster, K.G., lessor to the Improved Industria...
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Duke of Westminster, 1st, Hugh Lupus Grosvenor
Thrust into a corner of the facade and hidden by a bay tree this plaque has t...
St John the Evangelist Westminster This burial ground, having been closed for...
London Temperance Hospital. This foundation stone of the new wing was laid i...
Fourth son of 6th Earl Beauchamp. 1907-19 Conservative member of LCC for Finsbury. Chairman of Fire Brigade Committee of LCC 1909-11. Badly injured in a balloon accident while serving in WW1 but co...
Author and political activist. Born China as Li Yaotang. Ba Jin was his pen name. Learnt and advocated Esperanto. Spent 1927-8 in France. Returned to Shanghai. From 1983 suffered with Parkinson's...
Church warden at Christ Church Spitalfields in 1836. We've found two sites which have information about a William Sykes that may be our man, or maybe not: you decide: London Street Views and the Ol...
Created out of the Elementary Education Act 1870. The LSB covered the same Inner London area as that of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The members of the LSB were directly elected. The LSB ens...
Henry Bruce Meux was born at 41 Brook Street into a wealthy brewery family and became the 3rd baronet. Theobalds, the family country seat, had been closed as a result of his father's insanity, but,...
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