Person    | Male  Born 1511  Died 19/7/1596

Sir Francis Knollys

Treasurer of the Royal Household. Served Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Father to Viscount Wallingford. Surname pronounced "Noles" - another shibboleth for that Nazi spy disguised as one of us.

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Sir Francis Knollys

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Old Admiralty Building

In the mid 16th century this site was the timber yard for the nearby Whitehal...

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Sir Henry Robson

Sir Henry Robson

Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kensington twice: 1905-6 and 1906-7. An active Methodist.  We believe he had a daughter who married in 1902: "Jessie Murdoch Robson, daughter of Sir Henry Robson and L...

Person, Politics & Administration, Scotland

1 memorial
Thomas Emley Young

Thomas Emley Young

A brief résumé of the man can be found on the Gerontology Wiki website. Thomas Emley Young was born c.1844 in Newcastle, Northumberland, the eldest of the six children of Thomas James Young (1819-...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Robert Banks-Martin

Robert Banks-Martin

Architect and East Ham Mayor, 1914-18. Born Norfolk. He visited troops from East Ham on the western front.

Person, Architecture, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Albert Maurice Deane Robertson

Albert Maurice Deane Robertson

Warden of the Carpenters Company in 1956.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sir John Davidson

Sir John Davidson

 Treasurer of the Pulford Street Site Committee.  This is possibly Sir John Humphrey Davidson (1876–1954), who was a military man until 1922 when he left the army and then became MP in Fareham, Ken...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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Revd. Thomas Helmore

Revd. Thomas Helmore

Choir-master and hymn-writer. Born Kidderminster. Died at home in Pimlico.

Person, Music / songs, Religion

1 memorial
John Lewis Williams

John Lewis Williams

A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.

Person, Sport / Games

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
PP - 4K - Fisher

PP - 4K - Fisher

EC1, Edward Street

This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
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FCO - A unknown

SW1, Horse Guards Road, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The Foreign Office was completed in 1873 to the 1861 designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott, with Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt for the St James’s...

2nd Lieut. Eric B. Hill
War dead, WW1
1 memorial