Group    From 1989 

The Ashden Trust

Categories: Benefactor

Charity. One of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, which focuses on climate change, sustainable development and improving the quality of life in poor communities.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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The Ashden Trust

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Bridge of Aspiration

{Beneath the crest of the Royal Ballet School:} The Bridge of Aspiration, the...

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Hilda Seligman

Hilda Seligman

Author and sculptor. Born Hilda Mary McDowell. In the 1930s she entertained both Mahatma Gandhi and Haile Selassie at her home in Wimbledon, and sculpted the bust of Selassie which now stands in Ca...

Person, Benefactor, Literature, Sculpture, India

1 memorial
Sheila Millward

Sheila Millward

Oddly we can find no information about a Sheila Millward associated with Wollstonecraft or Stoke Newington.

Person, Benefactor

1 memorial
Maria Hawes Ware

Maria Hawes Ware

Daughter of Sir John Gurney.  Her husband, Robert Ware was a significant slave owner in British Guiana. When he died in 1824 he left 148 slaves. After a legal battle she inherited all his wealth in...

Person, Benefactor, Race Issues

1 memorial
friends and followers of Wilfred Lawson

friends and followers of Wilfred Lawson

Lawson's friends and followers erected the memorial to him in Embankment Gardens.

Group, Benefactor

1 memorial
Marguerite Nabers "Wita" Harbert

Marguerite Nabers "Wita" Harbert

Marguerite Nabers Jones was born on 24 May 1923 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA, the younger child of Raymond McAdoo Jones (1889-1955) and Marguerite Jones née Nabers (1894-1987). Her...

Person, Benefactor, Philanthropy, USA

1 memorial

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Guiseppe Pinelli

Guiseppe Pinelli

Anarchist. Born Milan, Italy. Worked as a railroad fitter. One of a number of anarchists who were taken in for questioning following a bomb that went off in Milan killing 17 people. Pinelli was see...

Person, Politics & Administration, Tragedy, Italy

1 memorial
Tagore Centre UK

Tagore Centre UK

Dedicated to promoting the work and life of Rabindranath Tagore.

Group, Community / Clubs, Poetry

1 memorial