He was noted for his paintings of the "Streatham Worthies"- a collective description for the circle of literary and cultural figures around the wealthy brewer Henry Thrale and his wife Hester.
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Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter, specialising in portraits. He was noted for his paintings of the "Streatham Worthies"- a collective description for the circle of literary and cultural figures around the wealthy brewer Henry Thrale and his wife Hester.
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On This Day 16 July 1842 Sir Henry Hick Hocking was born in Streatham Sir Henry Hicks Hocking (16 July 1842 - 9 June 1907) was a British colonial administrator. He lived with his parents Richard and Elizabeth Hocking in Manor Terrace opposite Thrale House in Mitcham Lane (Census 1861) Educated at Hambley House, Streatham (1851 Census) and St John's College, Oxford, where he graduated BA in 1864 and BCL in 1867. He entered the Inner Temple to study law and was called to the bar in 1867. After some years in practice in England Hocking went out to Western Australia where he served as Attorney-General of Western Australia from 1872 to 1879, excepting a period in 1874/5 when he was acting Chief Justice in the absence of Archibald Burt. In 1879/80 he was acting Chief Justice of Gibraltar From 1881 to 1896 he was Attorney General of Jamaica. He was knighted in 1895 The Image shows the location of the house in Manor Terrace. Henry in Oval picture and Richard seated On This Day 15 July 1948 Joseph Brooke Wilkinson died at home in Streatham In 1912 Wilkinson joined the newly formed British Board of Film Censors (BBFC) as its secretary and remained at the board until his retirement in 1948. Wilkinson has been described as 'a man of Victorian principles and stern moral rectitude', who refused to countenance anything that challenged or disturbed middle-class morality (J. Richards in R. Murphy, ed., The British Cinema Book, 155) He retired from the BBFC in poor health in early 1948, and died of cardiac failure at his home, 87 Gleneldon Road, Streatham, London, on 15 July 1948. After a funeral service at Streatham Congregational church, he was cremated at the South London crematorium. (Source Sian Barber) On This Day 15 July 1924, aviator Horatio Frederick Phillips died. Born in Streatham at 99 Sunnyhill Road Phillips developed an early interest in flight and devoted much time and money to the study of aerodynamics. In the early 1880s he built a wind tunnel to test aerofoils, and took out patents for aerofoils in 1884 and 1891. He also built a 15 ft radius rotating arm to test wing sections. In 1893 he built a tethered steam-powered model aircraft, and eventually he built full size aircraft with numerous wings of narrow chord, and with one of these he managed to make a flight of about 500 ft. in 1907. (Grace's Guide) On This Day 15 July 1864 Dame Marie Tempest was born. A resident of 24 Woodbourne Avenue under her maiden name of Etherington Actress; studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Manuel Garcia; after a successful career in opera and musical comedy as 'Becky Sharp' in 1901; became the leading comedienne of her day and performed new works by Barrie, Maughan and Coward known for her elegance and meticulous performances. Photos ©National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp04445/dame-marie-tempest-mary-susan-etherington On This Day Saturday, July 14th 1894
British Home for Incurables, Crown Lane. A 'Country Fair and Market' organised for the Hospice, with the Prince and Princess of Wales as the chief guests.Illustrations printed on the front page of The Illustrated London News (Lambeth Archives) Ruth Ellis died 13 July 1955. She worked at the Locarno, Streatham in the 1940s She was the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom, after being convicted of the murder of her lover, David Blakely. Ruth Ellis was hanged on the morning of 13 July 1955 at Holloway prison, north London. She was twenty-eight years old. She impressed everyone with her control and courage; the prospect of being executed for a crime she never denied was marginally less unpleasant to her than that of growing old in prison, as unprivileged and deprived of hope and opportunity as she had been as a child. She was buried first in Holloway prison, and later reburied in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. (Source Jane Dunn) n This Day 12 July 1919 Colin Cullis died. Culls was J R Tolkein's flatmate and friend at Oxford when the War broke out. Tolkein wrote: ‘Not a single man I know is up except Cullis,’ Tolkien lamented at the start of his final year as an Oxford student. It was 1914, war had just broken out, and their friends had left in droves to enlist in the army. Colin Cullis was born on 28 March 1892 I at 27 Christchurch Road Streatham, the youngest of eight children (though he lost two siblings before he turned three). His mother Mary was approaching 40. His father Thomas, secretary of the Surrey Guild commercial dock company, was ambitious for his sons and sent all three to Dulwich College (Source John Garth) https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/63344147/posts/658 |
AuthorMark Bery, Secretary Streatham Society Archives
March 2024
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