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
Commemorated ati
Co-op bank - Monoploy
Victor and Marjorie came to London from Leeds specifically to select names fo...
Other Subjects
2 memorials
Councillor Alfred Harris
Chairman of Westminster's Housing Committee: 1949-50.
1 memorial
Henry Carl Osborne
Clerk of the Carpenters Company in 1956. Architects: Whinney, Son and Austen Hall
1 memorial
Edward White
Churchwarden of St John the Baptist upon Walbrook in 1884. Given the shared surname we thought this might be the Reverend White's son, Edward, but he would have been only 11 in 1884 so it's not hi...
1 memorial
Hendon Corporation
The Borough of Hendon was incorporate into Barnet in 1965.
2 memorials
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