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.
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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.

Spain's leading actress Conchita Montes to star at Streatham Hill Theatre in El Baile On This Day 27 April 1956
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