Chairman of Governors of the Burdett-Coutts and Townshend Foundation School in 1924 and still alive and laying plaques in 1953. Nephew to William Burdett-Coutts.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
S. Burdett-Coutts
Creations i
Burdett-Coutts
These improvements were carried out with trust funds in memory of the late Ri...
Chauncy Hare Townshend Schools - war damage
This plaque is on the central cotagey-looking building which looks undamaged....
Other Subjects
Women's Liberal Association
Women's suffrage movement. It seems that many of these groups merged to form the Liberal Women's Foundation in 1887.
Sir Cowasjee Jehangir Readymoney
Companion of the Star of India, a wealthy Parsi gentleman of Bombay. His grandfather and two great-uncles had made their names, literally, in the opium trade with China (facilitated by the British)...
Person, Engineering, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, India
Eva Strasburger
Daughter to Christopher and Irene Turner which explains her being born Tanzania and brought up in other exotic places. She co-founded a publishing company with Roy Strasburger in Southern England b...
Col. Sir James Cantlie, KBE, MA, MB, FRCS, RAMC (T)
Sir James Cantlie was a British physician. He was a pioneer of first aid, which in 1875 was unknown. He was also influential in the study of tropical diseases and in the debates concerning degenera...
Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration, China/Hong Kong, Egypt, Scotland
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