First Prime Minister of Great Britain. An early political victim of satire, the target of Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, Hogarth and Thomas Gay. Walpole responded by setting up the office of the Lord Chamberlain to vet all new plays before performance. This censorship remained in place until the office was abolished in 1968. Father of Horace.
Born Norfolk. Died London.
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Sir Robert Walpole
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Fountain Tavern
In this court in the 18th century stood the Fountain Tavern where the politic...
Robert & Horace Walpole
Greater London Council Sir Robert Walpole, 1676 - 1745, Prime Minister, and ...
St Margaret's new tower - 1736
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Henry J. Wright
President of the Chelsea Temperance Society in 1908.
1 memorial
Major Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, CBE, TD
Financier and horticulturalist. He was born on 2 January 1916 in Westminster the second of the four children of Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942) and Marie Louise Eugénie de Rothschild née B...
Person, Armed Forces, Commerce, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Henry Fitz Eylwin
The first recorded Mayor of London: 1189 to 1212. Alternative spelling: Fitz-Ailwyn. His father was known as Eylwin de Londenstane (of London Stone).
2 memorials
Charles J. Clark
Co-Churchwarden of St Michael & All Angels Church in Bedford Park in 1887.
1 memorial
H. N. B. Spink
A Commissioner for the 1892 Westminster Public Library. The plaque gives him "M.L.S.B." after his name but we don't recognise the qualification.
2 memorials
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