About: Robert Woolley Walden   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Sir Robert Woolley Walden (1853 - 14 August 1929) was a chemist and local politician in the Westminster area. Born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, he trained as a chemist, qualifying in 1872. he moved to London where he carried on business at Elizabeth Street, SW1. He was elected a poor law guardian for St George Hanover Square, and represented the area on the Metropolitan Asylums Board. He was chairman of the MAB from 1913-1919. He was appointed a Knight Officer of the Royal Order of Wasa by the King of Sweden in 1909 and knighted in 1921. He died at his home in Warlingham, Surrey, in 1929, aged 78.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Robert Woolley Walden
rdfs:comment
  • Sir Robert Woolley Walden (1853 - 14 August 1929) was a chemist and local politician in the Westminster area. Born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, he trained as a chemist, qualifying in 1872. he moved to London where he carried on business at Elizabeth Street, SW1. He was elected a poor law guardian for St George Hanover Square, and represented the area on the Metropolitan Asylums Board. He was chairman of the MAB from 1913-1919. He was appointed a Knight Officer of the Royal Order of Wasa by the King of Sweden in 1909 and knighted in 1921. He died at his home in Warlingham, Surrey, in 1929, aged 78.
dcterms:subject
abstract
  • Sir Robert Woolley Walden (1853 - 14 August 1929) was a chemist and local politician in the Westminster area. Born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, he trained as a chemist, qualifying in 1872. he moved to London where he carried on business at Elizabeth Street, SW1. He was elected a poor law guardian for St George Hanover Square, and represented the area on the Metropolitan Asylums Board. He was chairman of the MAB from 1913-1919. He was a justice of the peace and held a commission in the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. When the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster was formed he was elected to the first city council. He became an alderman in 1905, and was Mayor of Westminster in 1907-08. He was appointed a Knight Officer of the Royal Order of Wasa by the King of Sweden in 1909 and knighted in 1921. He died at his home in Warlingham, Surrey, in 1929, aged 78.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software