Person    | Female  Born 18/11/1816  Died 25/12/1894

Miss Ellen Heaton

Categories: Philanthropy

Miss Ellen Heaton

Born 7 Briggate, Leeds. Art collector and philanthropist, initiating several charitable projects in Leeds. She cultivated relationships with some of the leading literary and artistic talents of her time, particularly John Ruskin and Elizabeth and Robert Browning. The Brownings however found her overwhelming to the point of being aggressive. Died 6 Woodhouse Square, Leeds.

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Miss Ellen Heaton

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Rossetti fountain

Unveiled by William Holman Hunt. There must have been a committee to erect th...

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Charles Booth

Charles Booth

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Guy's & St Thomas' Charities Foundation

Guy's & St Thomas' Charities Foundation

It can trace its origins back to 1553, when King Edward VI re-established St Thomas' hospital, having been closed during the Reformation. In 1721, Thomas Guy funded the building of the hospital whi...

Group, Medicine, Philanthropy

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Robert Clayton

Robert Clayton

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Person, Lord Mayor, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Race Issues

1 memorial
William Ford Robinson Stanley

William Ford Robinson Stanley

Inventor, manufacturer and philanthropist. Born William Ford Robinson Stanley in Islington. He filed 78 patents for precision drawing, mathematical and surveying instruments, as well as telescopes....

Person, Architecture, Art, Engineering, Literature, Philanthropy

5 memorials
Samuel Lewis

Samuel Lewis

Moneylender and philanthropist. A jew, born in a slum in Birmingham, who worked his way into being an established travelling jeweller by 1867, when he married and came with his wife, Ada, to London...

Person, Philanthropy

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Paralympic Games - 2012

Paralympic Games - 2012

Officially, the Fourteenth Summer Paralympic Games. A major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities, governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) that took place ...

Event, Sport / Games

2 memorials
Three Crown Court church, Wheeler Street

Three Crown Court church, Wheeler Street

About 1750 this French Hugeonot church joined La Patente church in Hanbury Street.

Group, Religion, France

1 memorial