Group    From 9/6/1911 

Royal National Institute for Deaf People

Categories: Benefactor, Social Welfare

Established in 1911 as the National Bureau for Promoting the General Welfare of the Deaf by Leo Bonn, this organisation's name has evolved somewhat over time.

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Royal National Institute for Deaf People

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Leo Bonn

City of Westminster Leo Bonn (1850 - 1929) founded what is now the Royal Nat...

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Royal National Institute for the Deaf

This building was opened as the headquarters of the National Institute for th...

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Thomas Doggett

Thomas Doggett

Actor and theatre manager. Born in Castle Street, Dublin (his birth year is approximate). He possibly performed as a strolling player and had arrived in London by 1691, where he quickly achieved su...

Person, Benefactor, Theatre, Ireland

1 memorial
John Henry Buxton

John Henry Buxton

Our colleague, Andrew Behan, did some searching and at the Cambridge Alumni Database he found a John Henry Buxton who was a trustee of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Associati...

Person, Benefactor

3 memorials
Wheeler family

Wheeler family

Benefactors active in 2013.  We'd guess that they were then living in the house on which they erected the plaque. British History Online, quoting the parish book, says that a Mr Wheeler lived in t...

Group, Benefactor

1 memorial
Lady Dacre

Lady Dacre

Gentlewoman and benefactress. Born Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Sackville, treasurer to the exchequer of Queen Elizabeth I. She married Gregory Fiennes, who subsequently became 10th Baron Dacre. I...

Person, Benefactor

1 memorial
Countrywomen of the soldiers that fought with Wellington

Countrywomen of the soldiers that fought with Wellington

This patriotic committee of women, led by Lady Lavinia Spencer, ordered the Achilles statue unadorned.  It was the men that insisted on the covering.

Group, Benefactor

1 memorial