She is the mother of Streatham-born Laura Beaumont, a scriptwriter, and wife to Bill Oddie
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On This Day 24th June 1985 Sally Barnes (Audrey Happy Parker.) died She was an actress, known for Holiday's with Pay (1948), Somewhere in Politics (1948) and Make Mine a Million (1959). She was married to Bobby Beaumont.
She is the mother of Streatham-born Laura Beaumont, a scriptwriter, and wife to Bill Oddie (Source IMDb)
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On This Day 23 June 1918 Hippolyte Gurney d'Arbour was killed. A private in the 8th East Surrey Regiment and son of Hipolyte Foster and Anne Mary d'Arbour of 37 Amesbury Avenue
Buried at Pernois British Cemetery-Halloy-les-Pernois, Departement de la Somme James Baldwin Brown died On This Day 23 June 1884
Rev. James Baldwin Brown, originally minister of Clayland's Chapel, Clapham Road, was later first pastor at the Brixton Independent Church, Brixton Road. He changed the old 'hard and fast lines of Puritanic teaching' within the Non-conformist church, 'breathing into it the finer spirit of Christianity' and inspiring his congregation with his missionary zeal to help the poor in the community. This later resulted in the establishment of The Moffat Institute, Vauxhall. Photograph of portrait by unknown artist, c.1880 Brown was famous at the time for his liberal philosophical views, both in the pulpit and in the press, and the numerous religious works that he published. He lived at 5 The Paragon, in Streatham Hill, and died at Coombe House, Kingston. Buried at West Norwood Cemetery On This Day 22 June 1887 Belgrave Ninnis was born. The family lived at "Brockenhurst", Aldrington Road, Streatham and later "The Elms" Leigham Avenue Streatham
Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis (22 June 1887 – 14 December 1912) was born in Streatham and a British Lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers and an Antarctic explorer who was a member of Sir Douglas Mawson's 1911 Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Ninnis was part of the three-man sledging team, the ‘Far Eastern Party’, with Douglas Mawson and Xavier Mertz, who headed east on 10 November 1912 to survey King George V Land. After three weeks of excellent progress the party was crossing a glacier (now known as the Ninnis Glacier), when Ninnis fell through a snow-covered crevasse. Mertz had skied over the crevasse lid, Mawson had been on his sled with his weight dispersed, but Ninnis was jogging beside the second sled and his body weight is likely to have breached the lid. Mawson and Mertz continued their journey towards the main base, about 300 miles away, killing and eating dogs as they went. Mertz died on 8 January 1913, possibly of Vitamin A poisoning from eating husky livers. Mawson struggled on, falling through a crevasse at one stage. He reached the main base in early February, only to see the ship Aurora, departing on the horizon. He was forced to remain at Cape Denison for another year, along with six men who had remained behind to look for the sledging party. Ninnis was the son of British arctic explorer Belgrave Ninnis MD (1837–1922)- died in Streatham and Inspector Surgeon General of the Royal Navy and member of Captain Sir George Nares' British Arctic Expedition of 1875–1876. Ninnis' cousin Lieut. Aubrey Howard Ninnis was an engineer on Shackleton's 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Ross Sea Party. Third Image Borup, Streatham. The chess player and literary scholar,Howard Staunton died On This Day 22 June 1874. He was a resident at 2 Leigham Avenue
Staunton compiled some valuable manuals on the game. Bobby Fischer enthusiastically found Staunton 'the most profound opening analyst of all time' (Hooper and Whyld, 391). The Chess Player's Handbook (1847, repr. 1985) long deserved, and still longer retained, the reputation of being the best English treatise on its subject. His Chess: Theory and Practice was left in manuscript at his death, and was edited in 1876 by R. B. Wormald, who succeeded him as editor of the chess column of the Illustrated London News. Staunton's name was conferred on the set of chess pieces designed by Nathaniel Cook which are recognized as the standard type in the English-speaking world. Add this to his successful invention of the international tournament and his far-seeing ideas about standard laws, and it may well be said: 'Staunton may not have been the greatest player of all time, but he probably left a deeper mark on the game than any other' (Coles, 20). From 1854 Staunton largely devoted his attention to the study of Shakespeare, of whose works he had been from youth an enthusiastic admirer. Source: Sidney Lee and Julian Loc. Images Chess.com and British Chess News On this Day 21 June 1840 Edward Stanley Gibbons was born
Edward Stanley Gibbons (21 June 1840 – 17 February 1913) was an English stamp dealer and founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd, publishers of the famous Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue and other stamp-related books and magazines. Gibbons returned to England shortly after the death of his fourth wife. On 16 January 1909, he married Sophia Crofts. However, it is possible that he and Sophia separated before his death in 1913 as his will makes no mention of her. Lived ‘Selsey’, 63 Stanthorpe Road, Streatham, his estate is left to 'a dear friend', Mabel Hedgecoe 11 This appeared in the Sketch On This Day 21 June 1899
Vera Margolies, pianist. Photo by Wayland of Streatham. |
AuthorMark Bery, Secretary Streatham Society Archives
March 2024
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