Project Archives - South Holland Life Heritage and Crafts including Chain Bridge Forge

Geoffrey Lewis Capes

Geoffrey Lewis Capes (born 23 August 1949) is a British former shot putter, strongman and professional Highland Games competitor. He represented England and Great Britain in field athletics, specialis…

Maurice Johnson

The Spalding Gentlemen’s Society, one of the oldest learned societies in the Kingdom and the earliest provincial association for the encouragement of antiquarianism, was founded by Maurice Johnson (16…

Captain Matthew Flinders

Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of the landmass that is now known as Australia. He is also …

Sir Halley Stewart

Sir Halley Stewart (18 January 1838 – 26 January 1937) was an English businessman, journalist, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician who sat as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1887 to 1895 and …

William Stapleton Royce

(Born in 1858) English Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for the Holland with Boston constituency from 1918 until 1924. He was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, an…

Sir John Gleed

Sir John Wilson Gleed, M.A., J.P. (1865–1946) was Chairman of the Holland Education Committee and of Holland County Council. He was knighted for political and public service by King George VI on 13 Ju…

Alfred Piccaver

(born 1884 in Long Sutton) Alfred Piccaver (5 February 1884 – 23 September 1958) was a British-American operatic tenor. He was particularly noted for his performances as Rodolfo in Giacomo Pucc…

Henry Harold Welch Pearson

Henry Harold Welch Pearson (born 28 January 1870 in Long Sutton, died November 1916) was a British-born South African botanist, chiefly remembered for founding Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden i…

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