User:Davidstewartharvey

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!

Stuff Trying to find refs for
Sources so far  
 * Wilfred Parry, pianist and academic
 * Stuart Surridge & Co.
 * Donald McGill, academic, director of the Nuffield Science Project and first winner of Lawrence Bragg Medal
 * 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 Gavin CBE MBE former principal of Chelsea College of Science and Technology, who was instrumental in getting the college into the University of London, and would go onto become chair of the Royal Dental Hospital School of Surgery. Previously he had worked during the war on Radar, where he was acknowledge with an MBE. He has an entry in who's who 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
 * Stephen Linard fashion designer