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Civil Service Angling Society
Collectivité · 1934-

The Civil Service Angling Society was founded in 1934. Its first President was Neville Chamberlain who was Prime Minister 1937-1940. In the early days, the Society's membership mainly was drawn from civil servants who worked in the Whitehall area
Drake, Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt
Drake, Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt
Personne · 1881-1964

Sir (Hugh) Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake was a businessman, zoo owner and author. Between 1915 and 1950, he was twelve times the Mayor of Maidstone, Kent and was High Sheriff of Kent in 1956-1957. He lived at Cobtree Manor, Sandling, where he used part of his estate to house his private zoo - the largest in Great Britain - in which he kept lions, tigers, bears and elephants. He wrote two books: Beasts and Circuses; My Life with Animals (1939) and The English Circus and Fairground (1946)
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Collectivité · 1946-

The UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health is an academic department of the Faculty of Population Health Sciences of University College London. It was founded in 1946 and together with its clinical partner Great Ormond Street Hospital, forms the largest concentration of children's health research in Europe. In 1996 the Institute merged with University College London