Naval Architect. Sir Eustace Henry William Tennyson d'Eyncourt, 1st Baronet KCB FRS born 1st April 1868 was a British naval architect and engineer. As Director of Naval Construction for the Royal Navy, 1912–1924, he was responsible for the design and construction of...

Botanist. Frederick Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of Freehand and Geometrical Drawing at King's College London from 1886. His most famous work was Familiar Wildflowers which was issued in nine volumes. Frederick Edward...

Industrial Engineer and founder of General Electric Company. Born near Munich, Hugo Hirsch became a naturalized British subject in 1883 and changed his surname to Hirst. He was co-founder of the General Electric Company plc, and in 1910 became its chairman. He was...

Olympic Skater. Magdalena Cecilia Colledge born 28th November 1920 was a British figure skater. She was placed eighth in the 1932 Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid. Aged 11 years and 73 days she competed in the women's single skating competition and is one of the...

Physicist.  He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law. Richardson was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, the only son of Joshua Henry and Charlotte Maria Richardson. He was educated at Batley...

Portrait Painter.  Cope was born on 2nd November 1857, in South Kensington, London. His father was Charles West Cope (1811–1890), a successful history and genre painter, his mother was Charlotte Benning. He attended Norwich Grammar School and Wiesbaden, before...

Sir John Wolfe Barry (1836-1918) [PLOT 4] Civil Engineer English civil engineer of the late 19th and early 20th century. His most famous project was the construction of Tower Bridge over the River Thames in London. He was a recognised industry leader He also played a...

Landscape Architect (1873-1952) [GLADES OF REMEMBRANCE] Edward White was a distinguished landscape architect.  Born in Worthing, he came to London and met civil engineer H E Milner to whom he became an apprentice.  After taken into partnership, he married Milner’s...

Novelist. (1897-1977) [GLADES OF REMEMBRANCE] An English writer whose prolific output of thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930s through the 1960s. His Gregory Sallust series was one of the main inspirations for Ian...

Wartime SOE (Special Operations Executive) Wing Commander Forest Frederick Edward Yeo-Thomas, GC, MC & Bar, known as "Tommy", was a British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent in the Second World War. Codenamed "SEAHORSE" and "SHELLEY" in the SOE, Yeo-Thomas...