Secretary & Estate Manager to Westminster Housing trust 1932 - 1951. At Peabody Nanny Nell remembers "Miss Murray used to come and collect the rent. She did everything. She was hard-working, but firm. She would inspect the properties to check the windows were kept clean and inspect the beds too."
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Emily Murray
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Tachbrook - Murray
To commemorate the work of Emily Murray, Secretary & Estate Manager to We...
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Viscount Combermere, Wellington Stapleton-Cotton
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Roger John Lawrence Bramble
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Councillor E. A. Wormald
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Mark Dalton
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SE1, Middle Road, Borough Market
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World War 2
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Octavia Hill
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J. T. Bennett
Either lost his life, or gave distinguished service to the London Fire Brigade, and was buried in the Highgate Cemetery plot between 1884 and 1955.
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