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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Councillor, The Rev. G. E. A. Whitworth

Councillor, The Rev. G. E. A. Whitworth

Vice Chairman of Housing Committee, Diss Street 1922.

Person, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Robert Hanbury, MP

Robert Hanbury, MP

Robert William Hanbury. Conservative politician. President of the Board of Agriculture 1900-3. Married twice but produced no children. See our Hanbury fountain page for information on his Wimbledon...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Bernard Joseph Brown, CBE, JP

Bernard Joseph Brown, CBE, JP

Member of the Joint Co-ordinating Committee in 1982 for opening Tower Bridge to the public.  Mayor of Hillingdon 1969-1970. Bernard Joseph Brown was born on 27 February 1916, his birth being regis...

Person, Armed Forces, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
W. Chambers-Leete

W. Chambers-Leete

Town Clerk of the Royal Borough of Kensington, 1904 - 1916, at least. Kensington in the Great War by G. I. S. Inglis tells us that the Chambers Leetes lost their only son Captain W. J. H. Leete of...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Elisee Reclus

Elisee Reclus

Geographer, writer and anarchist. Born France. Visited Britain during 1852-7. Supported the Paris Commune of 1871. In 1872 was sentenced to perpetual banishment from France and settled in Switzerla...

Person, Politics & Administration, Belgium, France, Switzerland

1 memorial

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Kindersley Workshop

Kindersley Workshop

From the Workshop's website: "David Kindersley {1915–1995}, lettercutter, sculptor and inventor, started his workshop near Cambridge in 1946, having been apprenticed to Eric Gill. He was joined in ...

Group, Commerce, Craft / Design

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