Society (303 pages found in this category)


Jenny Pipes

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Jerome Caminada

19th-century police detective in Manchester, England. Caminada served with the police between 1868 and 1899, and has been called Manchester’s Sherlock Holmes.

John Kemp Starley

Inventor of the safety bicycle and founder of what became known as the Rover car manufacturing company.

John Rylands

John Rylands (7 February 1801 – 11 December 1888) was an English entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was the owner of the largest textile manufacturing concern in the United Kingdom, and Manchester’s first multi-millionaire.

John White, 1st Baron Overtoun

Scottish chemical manufacturer, supporter of religious causes, philanthropist and Liberal politician

Jonathan Tyers

Proprietor of New Spring Gardens, later known as Vauxhall Gardens, a popular pleasure garden in Kennington, London.

Joseph Denison (banker)

A wealthy banker and owner of the Denbies estate in Surrey.

Jougs

Metal collar formerly used as an instrument of punishment in Scotland.

Katherine Harley

Suffragist who in 1913 organised the Great Pilgrimage, a march along six routes to converge on Hyde Park, London, where a rally in support of women's suffrage was held.

Katherine Mayne

16th-century Scottish woman convicted of the murder of her first husband, Alexander Cant.