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William Hickey

31/5/2021

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William Hickey died On This Day 31 May 1830
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William Hickey , lawyer in India and memoirist, was born in St Alban's Street, Pall Mall, Westminster, 30 June 1749. The eighth child of Joseph Hickey (c.1712–1794), an Irishman, a successful London attorney, and his wife, Sarah Boulton (1720–1768), whose family were landed property owners in Yorkshire

He began his education at Westminster School, but was removed "in high disgrace" in December 1763 after neglecting his studies, frequenting public houses and leading, in his own words, a life of "idleness and dissipation". Instead he was sent to a private school at Streatham where he was able to study Arithmetic, Writing, French, Drawing and Dancing in addition to the Classical Studies which had failed to engage him at Westminster. In January 1766 he left school and began his legal training, but he continued to lead an extremely debauched existence.

For some thirty years Hickey practised as an attorney at the supreme court established in 1774 in the capital of the new British empire in India to administer English law to the inhabitants of Calcutta and to British subjects in Bengal generally.

In addition Hickey served for some years as deputy to the sheriff of Calcutta and became clerk to Sir Henry Russell, ultimately chief justice of the supreme court. Although in his style of living he remained for many years something of a rake, his career in Calcutta appears to have been a success. He built up a large practice, relying especially on ‘native’ clients, and earned enough money to enable him to live in a very opulent way, even if he did not save any considerable fortune. He prided himself on being a very well-esteemed member of the British community. He was known as the Gentleman Attorney and the company he kept 'always was the best' (Memoirs, ed. Quennell, 234). Fearing for his health, he reluctantly left India in 1808. Little is known of his retirement in Britain. He settled at first in Beaconsfield, moving to London in 1817.

(Extracts PJ Marshall)
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Consulting the Oracle by JW Waterhouse

31/5/2021

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This article appeared in the Illustrated London News 31 May 1884. "Consulting the Oracle" by JW Waterhouse purchased by Sir Henry Tate and presented by Sir Henry Tate to the Tate Gallery 1894

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Article Image © Illustrated London News Group and Image of painting released under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported)

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Mathematician Beatrice Cave-Brown-Cave

30/5/2021

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Beatrice Cave-Brown- Cave was born On This Day 30th May 1874. The family lived at the "Burnage" Streatham Common North

Beatrice Cave-Browne-Cave was educated at home and was blessed with siblings around her who shared her passion for mathematics. She would eventually go up to Girton in 1895 and come away in 1899, having been placedin the Third Class in Part II of the Mathematics Tripos, perhaps, with hindsight, a rather modest indication of her mathematical potential.

She immediately took one of the few options open to female mathematicians and became a teacher at Clapham High School, but it would be an opening at UCL just before war began that would launch Cave-Browne-Cave’s career in mathematics.

Her sister Frances was employed as a mathematics lecturer at Girton, but had established a concurrent working relationship with Karl Pearson in London and so likely played somepart in Beatrice’s appointment. Beatrice’s initial work was statistical in nature but, as the War intensified and much to Pearson’s chagrin, she took an opportunity to earn more money by working at the Admiralty on aircraft tail loading analysis and the study of aircraft oscillations.
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Source: Open University The impact of the women of the Technical Section of the Admiralty Air Department on the structural integrity of aircraft during
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John Desmond Rayner was born On This Day 30 May 1924.

30/5/2021

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​John Desmond Rayner was born On This Day 30 May 1924. He was the Rabbi at the South London Synagogue in Prentis Road Streatham

Rabbi and liturgist born Hans Sigismund Rahmer, in Berlin, Germany, on 30 May 1924, the only son and younger child of Ferdinand Josef Adolf Rahmer (1887–1942?), chief French correspondent at Deutsche Bank, and his wife, Charlotte, née Landshut (1897–1942?).

Rayner was ordained into the Liberal Jewish ministry by Rabbi Israel Mattuck in June 1953, and served the South London Liberal Synagogue in Streatham as their first full-time paid minister until 1957, when he received the 'call', as he described it, to the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St John's Wood, to be associate minister to Rabbi Leslie Edgar.

The south London years were happy times. On 19 June 1955 he married Jane Priscilla Heilbronn (b. 1931), a secretary, and daughter of Lionel Heilbronn, manufacturer's agent, and his wife, Pauline; they had two sons and one daughter. In the early years of their marriage they lived penuriously—the salary was minuscule—in Upper Norwood, and made many friends. Rayner was particularly remembered in the congregation not only for his brilliant sermons and his unfailing devotion to pastoral care, but for his car, which, due to his lack of money, was an old, failing Austin Seven named Gomer after the prophet Hosea's wife, who had been unfaithful but whom he loved just the same. The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, with its place at the heart of the Liberal Jewish movement at the time, suited John Rayner perfectly.
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(Baroness Julia Neuberger)
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Ben Warriss

29/5/2021

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​Entertainer Ben Warriss was born in Sheffield On This Day 29 May 1909. He is buried at Streatham Park cemetery
Ben Warriss was one of the great names of British comedy. He debuted in London in 1930 before teaming up with his cousin Jimmy Jewel. Jewel and Warriss became household names, touring as one of Britain’s finest double acts.
By 1966, the two had played 7 Royal Variety Performances, and 12 summer seasons in Blackpool. Jewel and Warriss also had asuccessful radio series, "Up The Pole," which ran from 1947 to 1952, and in 1950 made a film based on the series. In his later years, Ben Warriss continued solo in music hall and pantomime.
The grave can be found in the section behind Will Hay's grave.
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Louise Michel lived in the Furzedown area of Streatham

29/5/2021

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Louise Michel was born On This Day 29 May 1830

A teacher and important figure in the Paris Commune. Following her penal transportation to New Caledonia she embraced anarchism.
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Lived at a number of locations in south London including 53 Dahomey Road Streatham.
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George Andrew (Augustus) Beck (1904–1978

28/5/2021

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On This Day 28th May 1904 George Beck was born

George Andrew (Augustus) Beck (1904–1978), Roman Catholic archbishop of Liverpool, was born on 28 May 1904 in Streatham, the second son of Fleet Street journalist Patrick Beck and his Irish wife, Louisa O'Keefe.
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The family lived at 52 Gelncairn Road Streatham and George was educated at Clapham College and later at the Assumptionist College of St Michael at Hitchin in Hertfordshire.
(George Andrew Beck 1904–1978 by Elliott & Fry, 1955
© National Portrait Gallery, London- Creative Commons License)
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Gunner Henry Bailey

27/5/2021

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​Gunner Henry Bailey a builder from 15 Woodmansterne Road was killed 27 May 1943. Captured in Singapore he was a Prisoner of War. Son of Henry Alfred and Jessie Louisa Bailey of Streatham

155th (The Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regt. Royal Artillery.
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Originally interred in Wampo Cemetery (Greve 13), reinterred in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery on 17th or 19th March 1946.
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#ThrowbackThursday is a wonderful shot of Streatham High Road looking South with "The Chimes" and Streatham Common on the left Photo courtesy of Kevin Kelly.

27/5/2021

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Streatham Depot staff 1940

27/5/2021

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This photograph was taken On This Day 27th May 1940.
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Group photograph of the Streatham Depot staff, Central Hospital Supply Service.
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