7 victory ace with 46 Squadron,
(Source Ron Eisele-Author. Early aviation historian, enthusiast and aviator.)
The 1911 census Stuart Harvey Pratt shown as an articled Chartered Accountant at "Carrick" Ullathorn Road, Streatham.
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On This Day 23 June 1893 Captain Stuart Harvey Pratt was born in Streatham 7 victory ace with 46 Squadron, (Source Ron Eisele-Author. Early aviation historian, enthusiast and aviator.) The 1911 census Stuart Harvey Pratt shown as an articled Chartered Accountant at "Carrick" Ullathorn Road, Streatham.
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On This Day 23 June 1926- The opening day of Surrey v Oxford University at The Oval, in which Jack Hobbs and Streatham's Andy Sandham put on a club record 428 for the 1st wicket. (Marcus Hook) Andy Sandham was born in Streatham and lived at "Kelso" where his father was the gardener. (Kelso was roughly in the area of where the Virgin Active is today with its front on Streatham High Road at number 251 On This Day 22 June 1937 Eliza Orme died of heart failure at home at "Fenstanton", Christchurch Road, Streatham A social activist and lawyer, was born on 25 December 1848 at 16 Regent Villas, Avenue Road, London, the seventh of eight children of Charles Orme (c.1807–1893), distiller, of Southwark, and his wife, Eliza (1816–1892) She attended Bedford College for Women and entered University College, London, in 1871, where she studied law and political economy, winning in 1876 first prize in Roman law and the Hume scholarship in jurisprudence. She was a member of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage and of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women, and was a founding member of the Women's Liberal Federation (WLF) in 1887, editing their Women's Gazette and Weekly News from 1889 to 1891. When the WLF split in 1892 she joined the Women's National Liberal Federation (WNLF), and later wrote the life of the founder (Lady Fry of Darlington, 1898). (Source Leslie Howsam) Edward Stanley Gibbons, a philatelist and former resident of Streatham , was born On This Day 21 June 1840. Already interested in the new hobby of stamp collecting, he started to trade in stamps in 1856 from a desk in his father's shop. He began trading as E. S. Gibbons, then as E. Stanley Gibbons, and later as Stanley Gibbons & Co. A lucky deal in 1863 caused his business to take off: he bought two sacks of Cape of Good Hope triangular stamps for £5 from two sailors who had won them in a raffle in Cape Town. He later claimed to have made £500 on the deal. In November 1865 he issued a sixteen-page price list and catalogue, the forerunner of Gibbons'scatalogues. On his father's death in 1867 Gibbons took over the chemist's business, and in the 1871 census he was described as 'chemist and dealer in foreign stamps'. He sold the chemist's business in 1872 and moved to new premises at Plymouth Hoe. Here he published his first Gibbons ‘V.R.’ stamp album, followed by the ‘Improved’ and illustrated ‘Imperial’ albums. Gibbons was married five times (Source GE Dixon) On This Day 20 June 1915 Private Norman Shellibeer Doust died of tuberculosis after being discharged from the army during WW1.
His brother Charles was killed in the WW1 in 1916. Full story below: ---------------------------------------------------- Private Norman Shellibeer Doust (24 Dec 1889-20 June 1918). Royal Flying Corps 2nd Lieutenant Charles Bowden Doust (26th October 1887- 1st July 1916). 5th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) The brothers were both educated at Dulwich College and lived at Tregothnan, Rydal Road,Streatham. Norman was born on December 24th 1889, the younger of two sons of Charles Doust, an export merchant on the 1901 census listed as a Colonial Commission merchant , and his wife Laura. He went to Dulwich College from the Prep, two and a half years after his elder brother, Charles, had made the same transition. Having left in 1905, after just under two and a half years as a pupil, he went to Paris the following year, spending the next three years working in a wool manufacturing firm there. After this he subsequently spent two years working in a commercial house in New York, before returning to London in 1912 in order to take up a position in his father’s firm. On August 6th 1914, two days after the declaration of war, both Norman and his elder brother Charles signed up as privates in the London Rifle Brigade, and were sent to France for the first time in the November, spending the winter in the trenches. He was invalided home during the second Battle of Ypres, and after a period of recuperation in Bristol was offered a commission; he turned this down, however, instead transferring to the Royal Flying Corps. In July 1916 he returned to the front with the R.F.C. for the first time, and had been serving with them for almost a year when, in late June 1917, he was taken ill. After a period in hospital in France, Norman was returned home with what was suspected, and later confirmed, as being tuberculosis. He was officially discharged on August 7th, and passed away in a sanatorium near Bournemouth the following year, on June 20th 1918. His brother Charles, who had stayed with the London Rifle Brigade, had been killed during the first day of the Somme. (Source Dulwich College) Streatham High Road in the great days when Pratts- of the John Lewis Partnership, were present as our anchor store. You are welcome back any timeOur.
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AuthorMark Bery, Secretary Streatham Society Archives
February 2024
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