On This Day 30 April 1963 Glyn Peter Hodges was born

A Welsh footballer and manager who was born and raised in Streatham

During his playing career he played for Wimbledon, Newcastle United, Watford, Crystal Palace, Sheffield United, Derby County, Hull City, Nottingham Forest and Scarborough. He also played 18 times for the Welsh national side, scoring twice.
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Hodges started his playing career with Wimbledon and made more than 200 appearances for the Crazy Gang during seven years at the club

John Raphael was born On This Day 30 April 1882. He lived at 52 Gleneagle Road

John Edward Raphael (30 April 1882 – 11 June 1917) was a Belgian-born sportsman who was capped nine times for England at rugby union and played first-class cricket with Surrey.

He was a Barrister by profession and a Liberal politician.

Raphael was Jewish and the son of multi-millionaire financier Albert Raphael, who was part of a banking dynasty that in the 1920s rivalled the Rothschild family John Raphael was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, and St John's College, Oxford.
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In January 2021, one of the eight pastoral Houses at Merchant Taylors' was re-named in his honour.
In World War I Raphael served with the King's Royal Rifle Corps as a Lieutenant and died of wounds in 1917 at the Battle of Messines, while fighting in the country of his birth.

On This Day 28 April 1840 the painter and writer John Southward was born, the son of Jackson Southward, printer, of Liverpool. He is recorded living at 153 Gleneagle Road in 1901

Southward became recognized as the leading authority on the history and processes of printing. His Dictionary of Typography and its Accessory Arts, after being issued as monthly supplements to the Printers' Register, was published as a book in 1872

Southward also published Authorship and Publication, a technical guide for authors, in 1881, and Artistic Printing: a Supplement to Practical Printing
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Southward was active in philanthropic work and in 1888 founded, and for a short time edited, a monthly paper called Charity. During his later years he lived at Streatham, and died at St Thomas's Hospital, London, after an operation, on 9 July 1902. He was buried in Norwood cemetery.

Phil Tate was born in Bramley, Yorkshire, On This Day 28th April 1922 and was educated at West Leeds High School.
He developed an early interest in music, taking up the violin at the age of eight.
When the Ilford Palais residency ended, Phil Tate moved to the Locarno in Streatham where he stayed until 1968, at which time he handed the band over to singer Ken Barrie, relinquishing full-time bandleading as he had become part of the Mecca management.
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(Matters of Melody)

On This Day 27th April 1864 James Kershaw MP died at Manor House Streatham

British cotton mill owner and Liberal MP, associated with the Anti-Corn Law League.
He rose from being a clerk for the cotton-spinning company of Lees, Millington & Cullender, of Manchester, to a partner and then head of Kershaw, Lees & Sidebottom, mill owners of Manchester.
He was instrumental in obtaining the municipal franchise of Manchester as a borough in 1838, and was its Mayor between 1842 and 1843, and later became the MP for Stockport from 1847 until his death.
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He died at his home in Streatham, and was buried in West Norwood Cemetery where his ornate Gothic tomb by Alfred Waterhouse (architect of the Natural History Museum, London and Manchester Town Hall) is listed Grade II.

(Image 1 by Samuel Bellin, printed by W. Hatton, published by Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd, after Philip Westcott
mezzotint, published 18 June 1852 © National Portrait Gallery -Creative Commons License
Image 2: Illustrated London News 07 May 1864 © Illustrated London News Group)