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 Deering Wells was born on January 31, 1896 in Streatham, as Frederic Saul Wells. Recorded at 80 and 155 Gleneldon Road
He was an actor, known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1960), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and The Royalty (1957).
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 On This Day 31 January 1903 Baron Donald Soper was born. He lived at "Yaverland" Streatham Park.
Donald Oliver Soper (1903–1998), Methodist minister, was born on 31 January 1903 at 36 Knoll Road, Wandsworth. The first son and first child of the three children of Ernest Frankham Soper (1871–1962), an average adjuster in marine insurance, the son of a tailor, and his wife, Caroline Amelia, née Pilcher (b. 1877), a headmistress and daughter of a builder. On 30 July 1929 Soper was ordained at Plymouth and on 3 August that year he married Marie Dean (1908–1994) at The Wesleyan Church, Broadway, Streatham. (Alan Wilkinson) NPG x2125 © National Portrait Gallery, London  Streatham News 30 January 1948 reporting Madame Hadley's last day in Streatham where she ran a school of dance in the High Road and ran free classes on Tooting Bec Common.   On This Day 30 January 1849 the artist Peter de Wint died.
He painted Streatham Commmon looking west, with Streatham Common North on the right. B/W photograph of a painting by Peter de Wint (Lambeth Archives)  The King (George V) lying in state by William Davis of Woodbourne and Becmead Avenues. Tatler On This Day 29th January 1936
© Illustrated London News Group. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.  On This Day 29 January 1913 Walter Howell died
He was Assistant Secretary to the Marine Department of the Board of Trade. His home was at "Redlynch", Streatham Common. Howell was a witness at the Titanic inquiry after it sank on its maiden voyage in 1912 A print of Howell is held by the National Portrait Gallery by Carl Vandyk ©National Portrait Gallery reproduced under the Creative Commons License x18604  28 January 1938 Streatham News " Switzerland" ice show at the Streatham Hill Theatre  THE STREATHAM-BORN FROGMAN WHO VANISHED: ROYAL NAVY’S MOST CELEBRATED DIVER, LIONEL “BUSTER” CRABB?28/1/2024  On This Day 28th January 1909 Lionel Crabb was born Lionel Kenneth Philip Crabb (1909–1956), naval frogman, was born on 28 January 1909 at 4 Greyswood Street, Streatham, the son of Hugh Alexander Crabb, a commercial traveller for a firm of photographic merchants, and his wife, Beatrice Goodall. Crabb was described by contemporaries as a most courageous diver able to endure great discomfort, but technically inept and a man of action rather than a thinker. Crabb joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve before the war, and in 1940 he volunteered for bomb disposal duties. when the war ended, he was seconded to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in a risky venture to help observe the behaviour of trawlers at close hand. In 1947 he was invested with the George Medal and the OBE Crabb retired in 1954 but reappeared at Portsmouth on 17 April 1956 with a relatively junior member of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) On the 18th April 1956 Crabb persuaded a clearance diver to dress him for an important dive on the following day and take him by car to the dockyard where the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze, bearing the Soviet leaders Bulganin and Khrushchov to Britain for a formal visit, would be lying alongside the premier berth. A body, without head or extremities but with every indication of being Crabb, was discovered in Chichester harbour, Sussex, on 9 June 1957, over a year later. (Source extracts: Richard Compton-Hall)  Field Marshal Francis Wallace Grenfell GCMG died On This Day 27th January 1925.
He was born in Lambeth and baptised at St Leonard's Church in July 1841. The address given in the baptismal record is Seaforth House Liverpool Grenfell Road, which runs through North Kensington was named for Grenfell- the road later lent its name to Grenfell Tower.  Sir John Watney was born On This Day 27 January 1834 in the parish of Streatham in Balham and christened at St Leonard's Church on 27th February 1834. He was the eldest son of John Watney and Susannah Dormay and educated at Harrow School. He was knighted on 30 June 1900 at Windsor Castle His Uncle was James Watney, the brewer and Master of the Mercers' Company He was appointed as Lieutenant for the City of London, and served for over thirty years as Clerk to the Mercers' Company and to the Gresham Committee a position from which he retired on 1 February 1907.  |
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