A barber/surgeon, who at the time of the murders lived in the cellar of the White Hart pub. He was later found guilty of poisoning his three wives for which he was hanged in Wandsworth Prison. Bor...

Person, Jack the Ripper suspects, Poland

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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

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George Edmund Street

Born in Woodford, Essex His chief work was the Royal Courts of Justice (1868-81) in the Strand.

Person, Architecture

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Anne Louise Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein

Born in Paris. Adam Thorpe has written "Conscious of her physical plainness but 'irresistibly seductive' in conversation, her salons were the focal point for pre-revolutionary reform, and eventual...

Person, Literature, France

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Finchley Road

This highway was constructed in 1835 as an alternative by-pass route to the old road from London to the north, which took the gruelling haul up through the congested streets of Hampstead.

Place, Engineering, Transport

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Faranak

Artist based in Lambeth, active c.2018.

Person, Art

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