Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone

Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone

Died 3/1/1981, 44 years ago

Born Princess Alice of Albany at Windsor Castle, daughter of Prince Leopold and Princess Helena. 1904 married Prince Alexander of Teck, which meant she was then Princess Alexander of Teck. Mother o...

Person, Royalty

4 memorials
Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee

Born 3/1/1883, 142 years ago

Politician. Born Clement Richard Attlee at Westcott, 18 Portinscale Road, Putney. In 1919 he became the first Labour mayor of Stepney and entered parliament in 1922. He served as Dominions Secretar...

Person, Politics & Administration

5 memorials
Geoffrey Bailey

Geoffrey Bailey

Died 3/1/1945, 80 years ago

Had served in the Manchester Regiment. At the time of his death was working as a Captain of Invalids at Chelsea Hospital. Killed in a bomb attack on the north east wing of the Hospital.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
William Behnes

William Behnes

Died 3/1/1864, 161 years ago

Born London but brought up in Dublin. Very successful and prolific sculptor but he was a difficult man with "evil habits" (which seem to have been mainly liquid) and never achieved membership of t...

Person, Sculpture, Ireland

3 memorials
Squadron Leader Frank Allen Binks

Squadron Leader Frank Allen Binks

Died 3/1/2007, 18 years ago

Frank Allen Binks was born on 17 May 1917 in Columbo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), a son of Harry Binks and Gladys Eleanor Binks née Allen. Much of the information about the man can be found on the Roy...

Person, Armed Forces, Medicine, Ceylon

War served, WW2
1 memorial
Hubert Bland

Hubert Bland

Born 3/1/1855, 170 years ago

Journalist and socialist. Born at 22 Wood Street, Woolwich. He married the author Edith Nesbit in 1880. Although she was pregnant, he divided his time between her and his widowed mother and her pai...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sir Proby Cautley

Sir Proby Cautley

Born 3/1/1802, 223 years ago

Civil engineer and palaeontologist. FRS.  Born Suffolk.  Proby was his mother's maiden name.  1819 went to India as a commissioned second lieutenant.  Apart from a few years his work there was main...

Person, Engineering, History, India

1 memorial
Joseph Anton Couriguer

Joseph Anton Couriguer

Died 3/1/1830, 195 years ago

Goldsmith modeller.  Born Switzerland into a family of artists.  Died Paris.

Person, Sculpture, France, Switzerland

1 memorial
James Elroy Flecker

James Elroy Flecker

Died 3/1/1915, 110 years ago

Poet and playwright. Born as Herman James Elroy Flecker in Lewisham. His first book of poems was published in 1907. He joined the consular service in 1908 and had postings in Constantinople and Bei...

Person, Literature, Poetry, Lebanon, Switzerland, Turkey

1 memorial
Capt. W. Goodley, OBE, MC

Capt. W. Goodley, OBE, MC

Died 3/1/1947, 78 years ago

Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1921-1947. Knight Grace in the Order of St John. The Chelmsford Chronicle - Friday 10 January 1947 carries an obituary: "Captain Will...

Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration, Transport

1 memorial
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