From The Woodland Trust: "Roger Jefcoate has spent 30 years secretly planting his beloved black poplars.... As a scientist and engineer, Roger developed Possum, the first remote control to help disabled people with their mobility....".
The birth date is approximate. From Buckingham Today: "In 1998, he was made a CBE for services to disabled people and in 2010 he was awarded the Order of St John; in 2011 he became a Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes."
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Roger Jefcoate
This tree is in the borough of Wandsworth. There are 32 Greater London boroug...
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Tea merchant, benefactor and politician. Born Frederick John Horniman at Bridgwater, Somerset. He inherited his father's tea business, which by 1891 was described as the biggest tea firm in the wor...
Person, Benefactor, Commerce, Museums / Libraries, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, India, Sri Lanka
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10,000 unaccompanied mainly Jewish children fled from Nazi persecution in 1938 and 1939. This was organised mainly by World Jewish Relief, but many Quakers helped the children at stations on the jo...
Event, Children, Transport, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Poland
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...
Lidice is a village in the Czech Republic just north-west of Prague. Following the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking Nazi, the search for the culprits failed, desp...
Composer. Born and died in London. Brother of the sculptor Maurice Lambert. Heavy drinker. Co-founder of the Sadler's Wells Ballet with Ninette de Valois and Frederick Ashton. Had an affair with...
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