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Victor Hugo Watson

Victor Hugo Watson

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

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Sir Edward Marsh

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 ...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Cecil P. Jarman

Cecil P. Jarman

Corps Secretary in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1889-1892.

Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Frank Green

Frank Green

Alderman on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.

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1 memorial
C. Gilpin

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.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
J. Crowther

J. Crowther

Overseer of St Mary Whitechapel parish 1884.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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H. H. Rflm. D. Griffin
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Gunner S. A. Alexander

Gunner S. A. Alexander

Added to the Teddington memorial with the "Additional names 1915 - 1918".

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial