Hubert Lee Holmes of St. Winifred's, London Road, Norbury was born On This Day 22 March 1883. He attended Streatham School and Dulwich College

Hubert was the son of Percy Holmes, a retired Major-General in the Indian Army, and his wife, Evalina. He joined the College from Streatham School at the start of 1897 and was joined at Dulwich a year later by his younger brother, Guy. Hubert was a pupil for three years, leaving at the end of 1899, whilst a member of the Army Class, in order to attend the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich. He passed out in the summer of 1901 to take up a commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery, being promoted to Lieutenant in 1904. Five years later he followed the career path of his father by transferring to the Indian Army, and a year after that, in July 1910, was promoted to Captain.

After the outbreak of war Hubert and his regiment were sent to Mesopotamia, but shortly afterwards he was badly injured and invalided back to India.

​He was to remain in India for the rest of the war, mostly engaged in the business of recruiting, and in the summer of 1916 was promoted once more, to Major. In April 1919 he returned to England on leave, but was already seriously ill, and passed away a week after his arrival from the combined effects of pneumonia and influenza, being buried alongside his father in the churchyard of St. Luke’s in Whyteleafe. His younger brother, Guy, was killed the same month, in a motor accident in Brighton.
(Dulwich College)

Canon Alfred Carver was born On This Day 22 March 1826

Alfred James Carver (1826–1909), headmaster, was born at King's Lynn on 22 March 1826, the only son of James Carver (1790–1866) and his wife, Anne Spurling. His father was an evangelical clergyman of an old Norfolk family, who, after graduating at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, devoted himself in London to the spiritual welfare of prisoners for crime or debt in Newgate and other prisons.

In 1852, Carver became surmaster of St Paul's, his old school, and was ordained in the following year. In 1858 he was appointed master of Alleyn's College of God's Gift at Dulwich.

In 1858 he was appointed master of Alleyn's College of God's Gift at Dulwich. A new scheme for the development of Alleyn's educational foundation had just been sanctioned by a private act of parliament. Although Alleyn had intended, by statutes drawn up in 1626, to found a public school of the high grade, his educational endowment was until 1858 applied solely to the instruction of 'twelve poor scholars'. The new act, which Carver was first to administer, created two schools of different types. The upper school, providing a public-school education for boys up to the age of eighteen, was soon known as Dulwich College, and the lower school, offering what was described as middle-class secondary education, mainly for boys intended for commerce, was named Alleyn's School. Both schools were under Carver's control and prospered greatly. The upper school or Dulwich College moved in 1870 to a building designed by Charles Barry (1823–1900).

In 1882 when, under a new act, Dulwich College and Alleyn's School, which also moved into new buildings under his guidance, became two distinct schools under separate masters. He felt able to retire in the following year with a pension after twenty-five years' service.
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Carver, who had three sons and five daughters, died at his home, Benshurst (Lynnhurst), Streatham Common, on 25 July 1909, and was buried in Norwood cemetery, the first part of the funeral service being held in the college chapel.
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(W. R. M. Leake and M. C. Curthoys)

On This Day 21 March 1924 the Music Hall entertainer T E Dunville died.

T.E. Dunville was one of the leading eccentric comedians on the music-hall stage. He was born in Coventry on 29 July 1867, the son of a tailor, and his real name wasn't Dunville, but Thomas Edward Wallen. Nearly everyone called him Tommy, though he liked to be called Teddie by his friends. He adopted the stage name 'Dunville' from the whiskey firm of that name.

His real name was Thomas Edward Wallen and he attended Bablake School in Coventry. He became one of Coventry's biggest stars earning over £100 per week.

By 1924 the music hall was in decline being overtaken by the cinema and he had difficulty in finding work. After one performance he overheard someone call him a "has been: and he became depressed and took his own life. His body was found in the River Thames in March 1924
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He was a resident at 106 (renumbered 88)Woodbourne Avenue Streatham

The pioneering photographer William Strudwick was born on 21 March 1835

He is recorded living at Thurlow Park Rd (No 4 Albany Villas) in the Historic Parish of Streatham
Images V&A and Museum of London
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http://collections.vam.ac.uk/name/strudwick-william/A16402/

On This Day 20 March 1836, the Architect James Cubitt was born in Ilford, Essex
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The only son and elder surviving child of James Cubitt (1808–1863), Baptist minister, and his wife, Mary (1796/7–1872).

James Cubitt designed the Streatham Congregational Church on Streatham High Road. The church was built in 1901 on the site of Heathfield, a large detached house, to the designs of James Cubitt. It was funded largely by two Streatham donors, Charles Derry and Frank Bentall, both department store retailers. Miss Derry laid the foundation stone on 16th May 1900. The church is now Listed Grade II.
(Clyde Binfield and Lambeth Archives)

The Streatham Forces Club was opened On This Day 19 March 1942 by Sir Edward Grieg in Woodbourne Avenue
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The club provided a common room, mens lounge, writing room, card room, games room, bathroom, chapel and a girls' lounge with an adjoining bathroom. A small shop and cloakroom were constructed in the hallway (Loobey and Brown)

​On This Day 19 March 1919 the actress Patricia Laffan was born in Streatham

Patricia Alice Laffan (19 March 1919 – 10 March 2014) was an English stage, film, TV and radio actress, and also, after her retirement from acting, an international fashion impresario.

She is best known for her film roles as Empress Poppaea in Quo Vadis (1951) and the alien Nyah in Devil Girl from Mars (1954)

Laffan was born in Streatham to Arthur Charles Laffan (d 1948), an Irish rubber planter in Malaya, and London-born Elvira Alice Vitali (1896-1979).

She died in Chelsea.
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Image 2 © National Portrait Gallery reproduced under the Creative Commons License