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 Jonas Hanway was born 12 August 1712 . A British philanthropist. He was the first male Londoner to carry an umbrella and was a noted opponent of tea drinking.
He was a founder of the Magdalen Hospital which moved to Drewstead Road
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 The poet Laureate Robert Southey was born On This Day 12 August 1774
He was the nephew of Rev. Herbert Hill, rector of Streatham He is the author of Goldilocks and the Three bears which when in Streatham he would read as a bed-time story to his Uncle's children (The family in Streatham were also visited by another literary great, Jane Austin who made several visits to Streatham to see her friend, Catherine Bigg-Wither, the wife of Rev’d Herbert Hill) Image by Peter Vandyke, circa 1795 NPG 193 © National Portrait Gallery, London edit.  Sophia Hoare was born on 23 July 1771 in Streatham, daughter of Henry and Hester Thrale of "Streatham Park" She was a favourite of Samuel Johnson who called her "dear, sweet, pretty, lovely delicious Miss Sophy" She attended Mrs Stevenson's school in Queens Square, London, and Mrs Cumyns's boarding school On 13 August 1807, Sophia married Henry Merrick Hoare (1770 - 1826). He was the 3rd son of Baronet Sir Richard Hoare and Henry was a banker in the family firm ( founded by his great great grandfather. Henry was also the 15th great grandson of King Edward I (1239-1307) and 16th great grandson of Henry III (1297-1272) ).  The Entertainer Benny Lee was born On This Day 11 August 1916 and was a resident of Streatham Close.
Benny had been well known as a band singer before he achieved real fame in 1950 on the radio show Breakfast with Braden which graduated to Bedtime with Braden. (Bernard Braden also a Streatham resident) (The Herald)  Renee Probert-Price died 10th August 2013. She lived at 48 Hopton Road Starting as a professional dancer as a young girl, Renee then became a Tiller Girl at the London Paladium and was also associated with the famous Windmill Girls. During her time managing the notorious Panama Club in Soho she met Douglas Probert-Price , her future husband, in a drug bust whilst hosting London’s rich, famous and underworld figures. Douglas, a detective at Scotland Yard, was the first commoner to become a barrister and was once bodyguard to Elizabeth Taylor Renee enjoyed a very varied and glamorous social life, and was friends with an assortment of famous figures, including childhood friend and fellow Streatham resident, Norman Hartnell (Photos Renee- Probert Price Collection)   Major General Charles Parkinson was born On This Day 9th August 1803
Lived at Westwell, Streatham Common. In the 1881 census his 4 daughters and 4 servants were also living in the house Charles Frederick Parkinson by Camille Silvy NPG Ax51475 ©National Portrait Gallery  On This Day 8th August 1876 Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was born, god-daughter of Queen Victoria and a Suffragette
In "Rise Up Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes published by Bloomsbury mention is made of Sophia providing cakes for the WSPU shop in Shrubbery Road "..a new WSPU shop opened in Streatham run by honorary secretary of the branch, Leonora Tyson, who had also been running Lambeth WSPU. The window in Shrubbery Road was tastefully dressed in colours. There was an abundance of sweets and cakes for the opening party- some donated by Princess Sophia Duleep Singh- but the cost of renting and decorating the shop had been used up all their funds. Leonora Tyson asked members if they could donate any unwanted furniture such as writing tables, paper baskets, a bookcase, a coal-scutlle, doormat and chairs. Like all the WSPU shops, Streatham sold postcards and badges, scarves and muffs and pamphlets and canvas bags for selling copies of Votes for Women"  On This Day 8 August 1901 Alfred Heaver died. In the 1891 census he is recorded living at "Streatham Elms" Tooting Bec Road, Streatham with his wife Fanny, two sons, two daughters and six servants. His address at death was "Oak Lodge" Tooting leaving an estate of £235k Alfred Heaver (10 February 1841 - 8 August 1901) was an English carpenter turned builder and property developer, responsible for the construction of a number of housing estates amounting to thousands of homes in south London, including the Heaver Estate in Tooting/Balham and in the Historic Parish of Streatham The Heaver Estate was built by Alfred Heaver between c.1890-1910 in a Queen Anne style. Heaver regarded this as his finest estate and it is certainly one of the highest quality areas of late nineteenth century suburban housing and flats in the borough. This romantic use of names may also apply to some of the road names. For example, Hillbury alludes to the island mound that was raised when the artificial lake was dug for Bedford Hill House. Elmbourne refers to Elms Farm and to the Falcon Brook which runs under the road. In the word ‘bourne’ we have the Old English name for a stream, which is also found in Streathbourne Road - Streatham Bourne, another reference to the Falcon Brook. Two other Old English words make up the name Ritherdon; ‘rither’, also meaning a stream and ‘dun’, a hill, and again referring to the mound. These contrived names appealed to the Victorian sense of history and belonging, but for the remaining road names we can possibly attribute them to the fanciful invention of the builder or developer.   Image © Illustrated London News Group In the early years of George Cole's career as a young actor he lived in Streatham, residing for three years in a flat above George Reeves Estate Agents’ shop at 267 Mitcham Lane (John W Brown)  On This Day 7th August 1986 the mountaineer Juile Tullis was killed. Lived at 69 Babbington Road with Terry Tullis
Julie Tullis, attended Godolphin and Latymer School, Hammersmith, until she was seventeen, discovered rock-climbing as a teenager and spent most of her weekends either in the mountains of north Wales or on the sandstone outcrops of the Kent and Sussex border The summer of 1986 proved a disastrous one for the eleven expeditions booked to attempt K2. Though some climbers reached the top, by the end of July six had died on the mountain. Two more perished in the first week of August. Meanwhile, those who still entertained summit hopes—representatives from four separate expeditions—were attempting the mountain simultaneously, Diemberger and Tullis among them. On 4 August they stood on top of K2, as did several of the others, including another Briton, Alan Rouse. Tullis's was the second British ascent of K2; no British woman had ever climbed so high. The storms raged on for days. Julie Tullis succumbed to high altitude during the night of 6–7 August 1986. She was buried in a crevasse at camp 4, with a memorial on the Gilkey Cairn below. Of the seven people marooned in that camp only two got down alive, Kurt Diemberger and Willi Bauer, on 11 August. (Audrey Salkeld) Interesting article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6088868.stm |
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