Japanese ambassador to the UK in 1993. Before that ambassador to Canada. We thank Shelton Chen for permission to use his picture of Kitamura.
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Hiroshi Kitamura
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Japanese students at UCL
The monument is made of fine-grained gabbro, polished to a black, mirror-like...
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Mair Garside
Westminster Councillor. Married to Hugh Garside. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly investigated this woman: Mair Eluned Rees was born on 30 August 1931 in Cardiff or Neath (depending on source...
1 memorial
Councillor J. Samuels
Chairman of the Shoreditch Housing Committee in 1940. From Tower Block: "Aggressive site-acquisition underpinned London's most forceful borough housing drive: that of Shoreditch MBC. This authorit...
1 memorial
Lord Stanley of Preston
Politician and Keen sportsman. 16th Earl of Derby. Born London, second son of Prime Minister Lord Stanley. Governor General of Canada, 1888 - 1893. His sons became keen hockey players so he and his...
1 memorial
Raine, Lady Dartmouth, Countess Spencer
Born as Raine McCorquodale. Mother Barbara Cartland. Worked for the preservation of ancient buildings. Her second, of three, marriages made her stepmother to Diana, soon to be, Princess of Wales. ...
1 memorial
Albert Baker
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
1 memorial
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King Charles III
One-time patron of the Goon Show Preservation Society. On the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September 2022, Charles, the longest-serving British heir apparent, went from Prince of W...
25 memorials
Albert Einstein
Physicist. Born in Ulm. He was proficient in maths and physics from an early age. By the time he was in his twenties he was publishing papers and was recognised as a leading scientist. In 1905, he ...
1 memorial
Leonardo da Vinci
Scientist, artist, etc. - a polymath, the first "renaissance man". Born in Vinci, Italy (No? Really?). Died in France.
3 memorials
English Heritage
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places. These include prehistoric sites, medieval castles, Roman forts,...
415 memorials
Dame Mary Quant
Fashion designer. Born Barbara Mary Quant in Blackheath. She and her husband Alexander Plunkett Greene opened their first shop called Bazaar in the Kings Road, Chelsea, selling clothes designed to ...
1 memorial
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