User:Davidstewartharvey

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Davidstewartharvey - amateur social historian. My posts might not always be well typed (i have a hbbitt of bad typo's lol) and Im still learning the ropes so bear with me!

• 22 November 2018 - Not really learning anymore with 100 articles created and still here!

• Wilfred Parry, pianist and academic
• Stuart Surridge & Co.
• Donald McGill, academic, director of the Nuffield Science Project and first winner of Lawrence Bragg Medal

Sources so far [1] [2]

• The Danube Seminars, annual physics lectures organised by Gyorgy Marx in Eastern Europe
• Gorringes department store - One of London's largest but not much written about them. I have put what I know on list of department stores in the UK and in the talk page
• Homer Legassey Jr. Car designer at GM and Ford. Famous for Buick Lesabre concept car and the body of the Ford J car. Also involved in a flying accident during his military service.
• Malcolm R. Gavin CBE MBE former principal of Chelsea College of Science and Technology, who was instrumental in getting the college into the University of London,[3] and would go onto become chair of the Royal Dental Hospital School of Surgery. He was chairman of the institute of physics and physics society 1968-70.[4] Previously he had worked during the war on Radar, where he was acknowledge with an MBE. He has an entry in who's who [5] which I don't have access to, but not much else I can find.
• Elizabeth Colwyn Foulkes MBE FRIBA - daughter in law to Sidney Colwyn Foulkes and architect (which she was awarded the MBE for in work for NHS) and former chair for the Rural Council of Wales.
• Department stores - Macowards, Hide & Co, amongst others
• Murray Gordon, CEO of Combined English Stores who was described by the Fasion Handbook in the same breath as Charles Clore & Isaac Wolfson.
• Combined English Stores plc - owned a wide variety including Harry Fenton, Page, Kendals (became part of Next), Salisbury, Zales Jewellers
• Michael Murphy, irish sculptor 1865 to 1938 who exhibited at the Royal Academy[6]
• Stephen Linard fashion designer