Courtier of King James I. Probably born in Oxfordshire. Had Holland House built and died there.
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Sir Walter Cope
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Holland House - blue
Holland House was built in 1605 for Sir Walter Cope, a courtier of King James...
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Sir Robert William Dibdin, JP, FRGS
Robert William Dibdin was born on 15 June 1848 in Bloomsbury, the second of the six children of the Reverend Robert William Dibdin (1805-1887) and Caroline Dibdin née Thompson (1812-1897). His pate...
Councillor George Hickling
Mayor of St Pancras 1905 - 6. Kentish Towner refers to "a coal merchants George Hickling & Co, then to be found on the corner of Regis Rd." in the late 1800s. Seems likely to be the same man.
Efthymios Kjotzas
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Aneurin Bevan
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Miss Agnes M. Gibbons
Miss Agnes M. Gibbons Organising Secretary of the Ladies' Guild in 1932.
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Michael Bakunin
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Rudyard Kipling
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Edward W. Godwin
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Sir John Lavery
Painter. Born Belfast. One of the "Glasgow Boys" he went on to become a successful portrait painter.
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