Born Newcastle. Armaments manufacturer and industrialist. Developed the hydraulic accumulator.
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William George Armstrong
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Hydraulic power
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Royal Doulton / Doulton Potteries
Ceramic manufacturing company. Began with a factory at Vauxhall Walk, Lambeth. Initially a partnership of John Doulton, Martha Jones, and John Watts, Jones left in 1820 leaving the company name as ...
39 memorials
1 memorial
George Simpson
Paint manufacturer who ran the Atlas Dyeworks. Born Newington. 1861 was living in Tulse Hill with his wife. Retired in about 1866 and by 1881 was living in Reigate where he died. See also Nicholson.
1 memorial
Chelsea china
Manufactured in a house at the north end of Lawrence Street SW3, 1745-1784. The factory was founded by two Frenchmen, Charles Gouyn, a goldsmith and Nicholas Sprimont, a silversmith. It was the fir...
1 memorial
Samuel Palmer
1857 joined his brother, George, in the family biscuit firm, Huntley and Palmers, based in Reading. Ran the London office and lived with his family in Hampstead in a house close to the site of the ...
1 memorial
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Edgar Kinghorn Myles, VC
Soldier. Born Edgar Kinghorn Myles. He was deployed with the 8th (Service) Battalion, Welsh Regiment. On 9th April 1916 at Sanna-i-Yat, Mesopotamia, he went out several times alone in front of Brit...
War served, WW1
2 memorials
Thomas William Callinan
A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Westminster City Council
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St John's in 1727 but it was still run as a single vestry. In 1855 the two parishes were reformed into the Westminster Distric...
179 memorials
William James Wetenhall
Churchwarden in St Pancras Vestry in 1889. Chairman of the Vestry in 1897. William James Wetenhall was born on 1 January 1835 in Southwark, Surrey (now Greater London), a son of Emanuel Wetenhall ...
2 memorials
Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman
Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman was the first Archbishop of Westminster. Born at Seville, Spain, of an Irish father. Click on New Advent for more information. In the 1851 census he is sh...
1 memorial
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