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 youngest people to ever compete in the worldwide Olympics Games.

She was the 1936 Olympic silver medallist, the 1937 World Champion, the 1937–1939 European Champion, and a six-time (1935–1939, 1946) British national champion.

Colledge is credited as being the first female skater to perform a double jump, as well as being the inventor of both the camel spin and the layback spin.

Her ashes were buried with her father Lionel and mother, Margaret.

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 Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained First Class Honours in Natural Sciences. He then got a DSc from University of London in 1904.

After graduating in 1900, he began researching the emission of electricity from hot bodies at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, and in October 1902 he was made a fellow at Trinity.

In 1901, he demonstrated that the current from a heated wire seemed to depend exponentially on the temperature of the wire with a mathematical form similar to the Arrhenius equation. This became known as Richardson's law. {\displaystyle s=A\,T^{1/2}\,e^{-b/T}}he H He became a professor at Princeton University from 1906 to 1913, returning to the UK in 1914 to become Wheatstone Professor of Physics at King's College London, where he was later made director of research. He retired in 1944 and died in 1959.

Richardson married Lilian Wilson, in 1906, and had two sons and a daughter.  Lilian's death in 1945, he remarried in 1948 to Henriette Rupp, a physicist.

Owen’s son Harold Owen Richardson, specialised in Nuclear Physics and was the chairman of the, Physics Department, Bedford College, London University.

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 training in art at Cary’s Art School and then moving to the Royal Academy school in 1874. He married Emily Beatrix Hawtayne on 6th September 1882, and the couple had two sons and a daughter. In 1927, Cope was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order and in 1933 he became a senior Royal Academician. Cope's first exhibited a work at the Royal Academy at the age of 19, and went on to establish his own portrait practice, exhibiting 288 works at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters between 1876 and 1935. He combined this prolific output with a prestigious roll call of sitters, ranging from Kings Edward VII, George V and Edward VIII, to Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

His high-profile works and successful style won him many honours: in 1900 he became a fellow of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters; in 1910 he was elected Royal Academician; and in 1917 he was knighted. In addition to his busy painting practice, Cope established an art school in South Kensington. He died on 5th July 1940 near Launceston, Cornwall.

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 prominent role in the development of industry standardisation, urging the ICE's Council to form a committee to focus on standards for iron and steel sections. Two members each from the ICE, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of Naval Architects and the Iron and Steel Institute first met on 26 April 1901. With the Institution of Electrical Engineers joining the following year, these bodies were the founder institutions of what is today the British Standards Institution or BSI.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1895, made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1897, elected President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (Pres.Inst.C.E.) in 1898, the year in which he assumed his middle name of Wolfe as an additional surname after receiving an inheritance from his godfather the architect John Lewis Wolfe (1798–1881).
He was also a member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers. He was chairman of Cable and Wireless from 1900 to 1917. In 1902 he joined the consulting firm of Robert White & Partners, which was renamed Wolfe Barry, Robert White & Partners (later, in 1946, renamed Sir Bruce White, Wolfe Barry and Partners). He married Rosalind Grace, the daughter of Rev Evan Edward Rowsell of Hambledon, Surrey. They had four sons and three daughters. In 1922 a memorial window designed by Sir John Ninian Comper was dedicated to his memory in the nave of Westminster Abbey.

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 eldest daughter.  The firm gained a reputation with the owners of large estates and local authorities for the sympathetic treatment of ground contours and natural features.

He was responsible for the gardens at the new Government Building in Ottawa, Bagshot Park, and Drottingholm (for the King of Sweden).  He also planned the first Chelsea Flower Show, the Royal Horticultural Exhibition of 1912, the gardens at the British Empire Exhibition of 1924 and the British gardens at the Brussels Exhibition.  White had a great interest in the cremation movement and for the development of ‘gardens of remembrance’ where ashes could be scattered or buried.  He was responsible for the development of the gardens at Golders Green in 1938, at the West London Crematorium at Kensal Green in 1939, the Garden of Rest at Chipperfield Church, Hertfordshire, and the Glades of Remembrance at Brookwood.