Whig politician. Grandson of the first Baron, and nephew of Charles James Fox. Born Wiltshire and orphaned by the age of 5.
Owned 401 slaves. Express Informer provides "‘By the unexpected death of his wife’s first husband in 1800, Holland found himself the reluctant, but effectual proprietor of the Vassall plantations in Jamaica." He claimed to abhor slavery, but apparently not enough to free the slaves as soon as they came into his ownership.
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Lord Holland, Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland
Yet anonther lazy London statue - see Peabody for our log of all the seated s...
Rev. S. Bickersteth, MA. Committee chairman. Because of the unusual surname, it is almost certain that he was the same Reverend Samuel Bickersteth who had been vicar of Leeds, Lewisham and nearby C...
President of The Royal College of Surgeons of England in October 2000.
Clerk of Works responsible for the construction of the Northern Outfall Sewer in 1862-3.
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest. George Joseph Cressall was born on 29 August 1880, the eldest of the sixteen children of Thomas Walter Cressall (1856-1927) and Clara T...
Chairman of Westminster's Housing Committee: 1950-1. 1964 the Conservative Miss P. C. Paton Walsh was elected onto the newly formed Westminster City Council Source: Wikipedia. Petronella Cordeli...
General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches. Headquarters in Essex Street.
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