On This Day 19 February 1717 "Streatham Worthy" David Garrick was born
An actor, playwright and theatre manager. A pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson and both a "Streatham Worthy"- the literary circle of friends of Hester Thrale of "Streatham Park" NPG D34374 © National Portrait Gallery, London A block in the Faylands Estate on the corner of Thrale Rd and Faylands Ave (which was within the "Streatham Park" estate) is named Garrick House. Alfred Daniel Sleeman Rice was born On This Day 19 February 1884. He lived in Kirkstall Rd
A building contractor, Chairman Rice and Son Ltd., Foote, Milne and Co Ltd., Scott's Restaurants Ltd., Strand and Savoy Properties Ltd., London and Provincial Land Development Association Ltd., and Newport Truck Ltd. He was also president of the Telford Park Lawn Tennis Club. Georges Montefiore-Levi was born in Streatham On This Day 18 February 1832 . He was a Belgian politician, industrialist and inventor
He lived at 10 Christchurch Road and 15 Telford Ave. Professor ROBERT HENRY SMITH died suddenly On This Day 18th February 1916 at home , 3 Thirlmere Road, leaving £1,290. His sister Lilias Smith died on the same day in Le Cannet, Alpes Maritimes
He is known for his 1890 design of a Great Tower for London. He was born in Edinburgh and Dux Medallist in the University Engineering classes in two successive years, and took the highest place among the Whitworth Scholars in his year. In 1874, at the age of twenty-two, he was sent to Tokyo to become the organizer and first Professor of Engineering of the Imperial University of Japan, having been selected for that post by Sir Joseph Whitworth, at the request of the Japanese Government. The engagement was for five years, and on his retirement he was decorated by the Emperor of Japan with the Order of the Meiji. After a year spent in engineering work in Italy, and another as managing partner in an engineering works in South London, he was appointed organizer and first Professor of the Civil and Mechanical Engineering Department of Mason College, Birmingham, now the University of Birmingham. The last twelve years of his life were increasingly devoted to literary work for the technical Press, including, among others, reports upon the technical features of Continental Exhibitions. He was also the author of numerous books on commercial economy in steam, heat, and power plants, on electric traction, also of treatises on hand and machine tools, and on the calculus for engineers. He compiled diagrams for the conversion of British and metric measures, and tables for the calculation of premiums on wages, etc. (Source Graces Guide) On This Day 17 February 1922 lieutenant Henry Marion Genochio, Royal Engineers, of Victoria Barracks Cork and 6 Woodfield Ave was murdered in Cork.
The son of Henry Genochio, formerly deputy Chief Inspector of HM Customs and Excise Buried with full military honours at Streatham Cemetery, Garratt Lane and a service at St Leonard's Church (Source Bloody Sunday) Alice Maude Copley was tragically killed On This Day 17th February 1918 in a Zeppelin attack at the Royal Hospital Chelsea which also killed 4 members of her family- her uncle Ernest and aunt Jessie and their sons Bernard aged 4 and Ernest aged 10
Born in 1888 to Daniel Copley (stonemason) and Emily Ludlow, Alice was baptised at St Leonard's and lived 36 Ferrers Road and later 41 Wellfield Road. She was a domestic servant- her 2 sisters working for the Cave-Brown-Cave family (Image Judy Pearson- Ancestry) Former president and outstanding C20 architect Trevor Dannatt died On This Day 16 February 2021, at the age of 101.
Trevor worked with Fry and Drew and the LCC and designed the 1960s additions to Rosa Bassett School, Streatham, now Graveney School in the Furzedown area. He was involved with the Royal Festival Hall where he detailed the staircases and glazed screens of the foyers, along with some of the external windows and last-minute furnishings On This Day 16 February 1992 the writer Angela Carter died
Born Angela Stalker in Eastbourne in 1940, she studied at Streatham & Clapham High School from (1951-1958). "Carter" is one of the 5 houses at the school Throughout her childhood she read voraciously. Despite her wide reading she did not do well enough in examinations at school to win a place at university but went to work as a journalist, apprenticing at the Croydon Advertiser. She moved west and entered Bristol University to read for a degree in English. She was often described as a ‘magical realist’, combining fantasy with clear descriptions which enabled realistic telling of unrealistic events. Carter was one of the most stylish English prose writers of the age. David Holloway, the former literary editor of The Daily Telegraph, called her ‘the Salvador Dali of English letters’. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of ‘The 50 greatest British writers since 1945’. An English Heritage blue plaque is placed at 107 The Chase, Clapham, where she lived Streatham's Oldest Campanologist in The Streatham News and Borough of Wandsworth Advertiser On This Day 15 Febrary 1914
Samuel was a gardener in John Tredwell's 60 acre plot in Streatham Hill and his wife a cook at the house. They lived at 49 Sunnyhill Road. Photo by Wayland of Streatham. |
AuthorMark Bery, Secretary Streatham Society Archives
March 2024
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