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British
lawyer
Sir Robert Megarry
was tried at the
Old Bailey
in 1954 for submitting false
income tax
returns, but later went on to become a
High Court judge
,
Vice-Chancellor of the Chancery Division
and then
Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court
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City of London
Montfichet's Tower
was a fortress in
central London
first mentioned around 1136?
Old St Paul's Cathedral
(
pictured
) in the
City of London
, destroyed in the 1666
Great Fire of London
, had one of the
tallest spires in the world
?
Robert Brandon
,
goldsmith
to
Queen Elizabeth I
and later
Chamberlain
of
London
, was the father-in-law of the
artist
Nicholas Hilliard
and of
Captain John Martin
of the
Jamestown Colony
?
Sheila Gallagher
has been the
City of London
's last remaining
lollipop lady
since 1990?
Sir James Shaw
established the right of the
Lord Mayor of London
to take precedence in processions in The
City of London
over all except the reigning monarch?
St Martin Orgar
, a church in the
City of London
most famous as being one of the churches mentioned in the
nursery rhyme
Oranges and Lemons
, was all but destroyed in the
Great Fire of London
in
1666
?
the
parish church
of
James Parkinson
, after whom
Parkinson's disease
is named, was
St Leonard's, Shoreditch
, a church just outside the
City of London
and most famous for being one of the churches mentioned in the
nursery rhyme
"
Oranges and Lemons
"?
the
City & South London Railway
, opened in 1890, was the world's first major deep tube and electric railway and ran under the
Thames
from the
City of London
to
Southwark
?
the
Temple Bar
marks the western edge of the
City of London
?
the practice of stacking dead bodies and covering them with soil instead of digging graves has left
Postman's Park
, a former
burial ground
in the
City of London
, elevated above street level?
England
11-year old
Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein
is regarded by
Jacobites
as third in line for the throne of
England
,
Scotland
,
France
, and
Ireland
?
19th-century
smugglers
in
Worthing
,
West Sussex
,
England
, were known to store their
contraband
in
table-tombs
at
West Tarring
's
St Andrew's Church
(pictured)
?
2,273 passengers booked travel from
Templecombe railway station
,
England
in 1982, despite it being closed from 1966 to 1983?
Rear-Admiral
Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian
(pictured)
was given command of the largest troop convoy to leave
England
, but twice had it forced back to port by severe
gales
?
Ain-Ervin Mere
, commander of the Estonian
Sicherheitspolizei
, was
sentenced to death
in 1961 for organizing the
holocaust in Estonia
, but died as a free man in
England
?
Air Chief Marshal
Sir
Charles Burnett
was born in the
United States
to a
Scottish
father, educated in
England
and eventually became the
Australian
Chief of the Air Staff
?
General Augusto Pinochet
was once kept under
house arrest
at a house on the
Wentworth Estate
, an exclusive residential area surrounding the
Wentworth Golf Club
in
Surrey
,
England
?
Australian
-born
lumber
executive
John A. Campbell
was said to have introduced
surfing
on the
Cornwall
coast of
England
?
Caryl Churchill
's play
Mad Forest
, developed partly in
Bucharest
in collaboration with
Romanian
and
English
drama students, was in production less than six months after the
Romanian Revolution of 1989
?
German rugby club
SC 1880 Frankfurt
adopted a red and black strip after a set of friendlies in 1894 against the
English
club
Blackheath F.C.
, who also played in those colours?
Great Fire of London
George Stanhope
,
Dean of Canterbury
, helped organise the building of
fifty new churches
to replace those lost in the
Great Fire of London
?
Old St Paul's Cathedral
(
pictured
) in the
City of London
, destroyed in the 1666
Great Fire of London
, had one of the
tallest spires in the world
?
Outwood
is the oldest working
windmill
in the United Kingdom, having been built the year before the
Great Fire of London
?
St Martin Orgar
, a church in the
City of London
most famous as being one of the churches mentioned in the
nursery rhyme
Oranges and Lemons
, was all but destroyed in the
Great Fire of London
in
1666
?
Greater London
Constable
Stephen Tibble
had been in the
Metropolitan Police Force
of
Greater London
for six months before he was killed by an
IRA
gunman?
Lord Mayor of London
Peter Gadsden
, the 652nd
Lord Mayor of London
, was born in
Canada
and became a
Companion of the Order of Australia
?
Sir James Shaw
established the right of the
Lord Mayor of London
to take precedence in processions in The
City of London
over all except the reigning monarch?
Sir James Whitehead, 1st Baronet
,
Lord Mayor of London
in 1888-9, replaced the
circus
-like elements of the
Lord Mayor's Show
with a State Procession, and was the arbitrator in the
London Dock Strike of 1889
?
former
Governor of the Bank of England
and
Lord Mayor of London
Sir
Richard Levett
's country house,
Kew Palace
, was subsequently sold to the
Royal Family
?
in 1453,
John Norman
was the first
Lord Mayor of London
to travel by water to swear his oath at
Westminster
, a tradition that continued until 1856?
when
M.P.
and
Lord Mayor
,
Sir James Sanderson, bart.
died, his widow helped make a rich prophet of
William Huntington S.S.
?
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