Statesman. Harley Street was named after him.
Responsible for the creation of the South Sea company and was the first governor. This company later became a major player in the Atlantic slave trade.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford
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Pepys, Harley, Etty, Stanfield
In a house formerly standing on this site lived Samuel Pepys, 1633 - 1703, di...
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Lady Ponsonby
Lady Charlotte Mary Roberte Paul Petsopoulos (née Ponsonby). Philanthropist; wife of Yanni Petsopoulos; daughter of 10th Earl of Bessborough.
1 memorial
Henry Thornton
Anti-slavery campaigner. Born Clapham. Successful banker. Good friends with his (indirect) cousin, William Wilberforce, prior to their marriages they shared a house bought by Thornton, Battersea Ri...
Person, Commerce, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion
1 memorial
James Chadwick
Inhabitant of Westminster and Governor of the Emery Hill Almshouses. Husband of Hannah Sara Chadwick. Died before 1850.
1 memorial
Sir Edwin Chadwick
Born Lancashire but brought up in London. A friend of Jeremy Bentham, Bentham dying in his arms. Chadwick's major achievement was the 1842 publication of the Poor Law Commissioners' "Report on the ...
1 memorial
Sir D. T. Keymer
Hon Treasurer of the Committee to restore Bishop Wood's Almshouses in 1930. Durham University has a 1924 photo of him in a group where he is named as "Sir D. T. Keymer, Messrs. Keymer & Sons a...
Person, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, New Zealand, Sudan
1 memorial
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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