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...
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Sir Edward Marsh
Collector, sponsor and friend to a number of creative people. Also closely associated with Winston Churchill. Born London. Died, unmarried, at his flat at 86 Walton Street. The picture shows Marsh ...
1 memorial
Cecil P. Jarman
Corps Secretary in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1889-1892.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
1 memorial
C. Gilpin
C. Gilpin MP. Associated with St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate in 1800. We can find a Charles Gilpin MP, but he was a Quaker born in 1815 so not our man.
1 memorial
1 memorial
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Gunner S. A. Alexander
Added to the Teddington memorial with the "Additional names 1915 - 1918".
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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