Nathaniel Acton was a wealthy successful Suffolk landowner. British History Online describes the land he owned in and around Shoreditch, stretching into Hackney and Bethnal Green. The painting is by Gainsborough, 1758. Information from Kirby and His World.
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Nathaniel Acton
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Nathaniel Acton mosaic
{At the centre:} This estate is named after Nathaniel Acton, 1725 - 1795, who...
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Nicholas Lidstone
Nicholas Lidstone was born on 2 December 1849 in Dodbrooke, Devon, the third of the eleven children of Henry Grant Lidstone (1821-1892) and Mary Honor Lidstone née Sinkins (1824-1902). His birth wa...
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A. R. Mason
Surveyor of St Dunstans Stepney, 1844. Nominative determinism rules - see Isambard Brunel for more examples.
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William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount
Born New York City into an extremely wealthy family. Lived in Rome in his mid-thirties where he developed a life-long taste for the arts. On his father’s death in 1890 he built the luxury Waldorf...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Philanthropy, Property, Italy, USA
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Ibstock Building Products Ltd
From their website: "... clay and concrete building products, building the face of Britain for over 200 years."
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