Dennis Severs' House

Dennis Severs' House

male
georgian, Spitalfields Trust, Aut Visum Aut Non!, Living museums, Gervais, Museums in London…spitalfields
Dennis Severs' House, 18 Folgate Street is a Georgian terrace in Spitalfields, East London, England. During the 1960s and 1970s it was lived in by...
Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson

female, 50 years old
organic food, Magic realism writer, Whitbread Prize, napoleonic, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, BBC…spitalfields
Jeanette Winterson OBE (born August 27, 1959) is a British novelist. Born in Manchester, she was adopted by a Pentecostal couple, who brought her...
Dan Cruickshank

Dan Cruickshank

male, 60 years old
defensive, invasion, Royal Institute of British Architect, Georgian architecture, British Isles, Skylon…spitalfields
Professor Dan Cruickshank (born 1949) is an architectural historian and television presenter, currently working for the BBC, and lives in...
Israel Zangwill

Israel Zangwill

male, deceased (1926)
spitalfields, Jews' Free School, Melting Pot, London University, Merely Mary Ann, zionist
Israel Zangwill was an English-born Zionist, humourist and writer. Born to a Russian émigré who had escaped persecution and death in a Czarist mi...
Mark Gertler

Mark Gertler

male, deceased (1939)
Alumni of Slade School of Art, University of Westminster, modern painter, portrait painter, British, Jewish person…spitalfields
Mark Gertler (December 9 1891 - June 23 1939), was a British painter. His early life and his relationship with Dora Carrington were the inspiration...
John Dollond

John Dollond

male, deceased (1761)
Astronomer, Fellow of the Royal Society, British, swedish, Optician, physics…spitalfields
John Dollond (June 10, 1706 - November 30, 1761) was an English optician. Dollond was the son of a Huguenot refugee, a silk-weaver at Spitalfields,...
Stuart Brisley

Stuart Brisley

male, 76 years old
Transgressive artist, County Durham, Slade School of Art, Haslemere, Hornsey College of Art, UK Museum of Ordure…spitalfields
Stuart Brisley (born in 1933 in Haslemere, England) is widely regarded as the godfather of British performance art. Obtaining notoriety during the...
Joe Loss

Joe Loss

male, deceased (1990)
spitalfields, From London, Jewish person, musician, British, Joshua Alexander Loss
Joshua Alexander Loss or Joe Loss, musician, born 22 June 1909 in Spitalfields, London died 1990. Founder of The Joe Loss Orchestra, a light...

Tom Pemberton

male, 40 years old
st john, chef, hammersmith, spitalfields, From London, English
Tom Pemberton (born 1969) is an English chef who cofounded the Hereford Road restaurant off Westbourne Grove, London. He was previously Head Chef...
Thomas Stothard

Thomas Stothard

male, deceased (1834)
painter, poet, bell, robinson crusoe, clarissa, Royal Academy…spitalfields
Thomas Stothard (August 17, 1755 - April 27, 1834) was an English painter and engraver. He was born in London, the son of a well-to-do innkeeper in...