Born near the Kennington Oval but his family returned to Yorkshire when he was very young and he saw himself as a Yorkshireman. In 1908 he joined Waddingtons, a printing firm which developed a specialism in playing cards and in the '30s moved into jigsaws for which there was a craze. Was responsible for acquiring the rights to Monopoly.
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Victor Hugo Watson
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Co-op bank - Monoploy
Victor and Marjorie came to London from Leeds specifically to select names fo...
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Admiral of the Fleet, Sir James Alexander Gordon, GCB
Naval officer. Born Aberdeenshire. Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1853 until his death. 75 years in the navy, he was possibly the model for C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower.
1 memorial
Sir Peter Studd
Lord Mayor in 1971. Excelled at cricket in his youth. In 1967, while Studd was Alderman Sheriff of the City of London, the 1831 London Bridge which had been sold to Arizona was installed in its n...
1 memorial
James Ranger
Prospective Socialist candidate for the Epping division in October 1935.
1 memorial
Frederick Frye
Grocer and Liberal politician. Full name Frederick Charlwood Frye. Started a chain of shops in 1870 and by 1894 was running 50 stores across England and Ireland. Was a member of the Metropolitan Bo...
1 memorial
Robert Stephenson
Railway and civil engineer. Born near Newcastle upon Tyne. Son of George Stephenson who built "the Rocket" locomotive in 1827. Robert was Chief Engineer of the London to Birmingham Railway which ...
4 memorials
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Sir Harold Gillies
Pioneer plastic surgeon. Born Dunedin, New Zealand. Came to England as a student at Cambridge and qualified as a surgeon in 1910. The two world wars provided him with the inspiration (and the patie...
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1 memorial
Leslie John Palmer
Fireman killed as a result of an air raid on Plaistow Road, E15 on 19 March 1941. Fireman Leslie John Palmer was born on 3 January 1910 in Penge, Kent, the 4th son of George Walter Palmer (b. 1869...
War dead non-military, WW2
2 memorials
Charles Kitterbell
A character in Charles Dickens' sketches by Boz "The Bloomsbury Christening".
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