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Bertorelli, Joe [Giuseppe Domenico] (1893–1994), restaurateur  

Paul Levy

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Bertorelli, Joe [Giuseppe Domenico] (1893–1994), restaurateur, was born on 10 June 1893 at Bergazzi di Bardi, Piacenza, Liguria, Italy, the youngest of the four sons of Lazzaro and Marianna Bertorelli. By the time of his birth his father and three elder brothers were already living and working in ...

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Blincoe, Robert (c. 1792–1860), factory apprentice  

Brian Harrison

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Blincoe, Robert (c. 1792–1860), factory apprentice, was a parish orphan who knew neither parent, did not know his place of birth, and was uncertain even about his name. Between the ages of four and seven he was brought up in St Pancras workhouse, London...

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Bowker, Agnes (b. 1541/2), servant and alleged mother of a cat  

David Cressy

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28 September 2006

Bowker, Agnes (b. 1541/2), servant and alleged mother of a cat, was the daughter of Henry Bowker, a yeoman or butcher of Market Harborough, Leicestershire, and suffered from fits of 'the falling sickness' or epilepsy. Although she described being once sent to live in ...

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Dunstan, Jeffrey (1759?–1797)  

Maker: T. Wilkes

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
Jeffrey Dunstan (1759?–1797) by T. Wilkes, pubd 1794 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Dunstan, Jeffrey (1759?–1797), hawker and ‘mayor of Garrett’  

G. F. R. Barker

revised by Anita McConnell

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Dunstan, Jeffrey (1759?–1797), hawker and ‘mayor of Garrett’, was a foundling reared in the parish workhouse of St Dunstan-in-the-East, in the City of London. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to a greengrocer, but he ran away to Birmingham, where he worked in the factories. The heavy labour probably added to his deformities, for as an adult he had knock knees, a large head, and grew to a height of only ...

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Nicholson, Wilfred (1821–1921), paint manufacturer  

Francis Goodall

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Nicholson, Wilfred (1821–1921), paint manufacturer, was born in London on 13 September 1821, the third surviving child of Thomas Nicholson and his wife, Elizabeth, née Coulson (d. 1859). In 1810 his father had moved from co. Durham to London to find work and after various jobs joined ...

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Sobell, Sir Michael (1892–1993), industrialist and benefactor  

Richard Davenport-Hines

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Sobell, Sir Michael (1892–1993), industrialist and benefactor, was born on 1 November 1892 at Boryslau, Galicia, the only son of Lewis Sobel and his wife, Esther. His family owned factories in the Austro-Hungarian empire and oil interests at Limburg in Germany, but his parents moved to ...

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Swinburne, Sir James, ninth baronet (1858–1958)  

Maker: Elliott & Fry

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
Sir James Swinburne, ninth baronet (1858–1958) by Elliott & Fry © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Swinburne, Sir James, ninth baronet (1858–1958), industrial chemist and electrical engineer  

F. A. Freeth

revised by Anita McConnell

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Swinburne, Sir James, ninth baronet (1858–1958), industrial chemist and electrical engineer, was born in Inverness on 28 February 1858, the third of the six sons of Lieutenant Thomas Anthony Swinburne RN and his wife, Mary Anne, daughter of Captain Edward Fraser of Gortuleg...

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Taylor, Theodore Cooke (1850–1952), woollen manufacturer and politician  

D. T. Jenkins

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Taylor, Theodore Cooke (1850–1952), woollen manufacturer and politician, was born at New Hall, Carlinghow, Batley, West Riding of Yorkshire, on 3 August 1850, the eldest son of Joshua Taylor (1821–1879), cloth manufacturer, and his wife, Alice (d. 1860), daughter of Samuel Cooke...