Sir William (Alfred) Waterlow, 1st Baronet, (23 April 1871 - 6 July 1931), was 602nd Lord Mayor of London. [1] [2]
Waterlow was educated at Marlborough College. He rose to become Managing Director of Waterlow and Sons and was knighted Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1919 New Year Honours. He became Alderman for Cornhill Ward and was elected a Sheriff of the City of London for 1928–29 and Lord Mayor of London for 1929–30. He was created a baronet, of Harrow Weald, on 28 October 1930.
He is best known for his involvement in the Portuguese Bank Note Crisis (1925) a fraud masterminded by Alves dos Reis.
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet PC, FBA was an English jurist best known for his History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, written with F.W. Maitland, and his lifelong correspondence with US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles.
Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon, was a British politician, diplomat, art collector and author.
Sir Sydney Hedley Waterlow, 1st Baronet, was a British philanthropist and Liberal Party politician, principally remembered for donating Waterlow Park to the public as "a garden for the gardenless".
Major Sir Frank Henry Bowater, 1st Baronet, was Lord Mayor of London from 1938 to 1939, son of William Vansittart Bowater and his wife Eliza Jane née Davey.
Waterlow and Sons Limited was a major worldwide engraver of currency, postage stamps, stocks and bond certificates based in London, Watford and Dunstable in England. The company was founded as a family business in 1810. It was acquired in 1961 by De La Rue.
Sir John James Baddeley, 1st Baronet, was a Lord Mayor of London.
There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Waterlow family, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both titles are extant as of 2010.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederick Henry Hall, 1st Baronet, was a British businessman and politician. During World War I he was active in recruiting men for 'Kitchener's Army'.
There have been six baronetcies created for persons with the surname Newton, three in the Baronetage of England, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
Stubbington House School was founded in 1841 as a boys' preparatory school, originally located in the Hampshire village of Stubbington, around 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Solent. Stubbington House School was known by the sobriquet "the cradle of the Navy". The school was relocated to Ascot in 1962, merging with Earleywood School, and it closed in 1997.
Sir Alfred Hamilton Grant, 12th Baronet, known as Hamilton Grant, and from 1918 as Sir Hamilton Grant, was a British diplomat who served primarily in India. He was also briefly a Liberal Party politician.
Sir Sydney Philip Perigal Waterlow was a British diplomat, serving as British Minister to Thailand, Ethiopia and Bulgaria before he ended as Ambassador to Greece from 1933 to 1939.
Stephen Noel Furness, was a British barrister and Liberal National politician. He was Member of Parliament for Sunderland from 1935 to 1945. From 1938 to 1940 he was made a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury.
Sir Alfred Jodrell, 4th Baronet was the fourth and last of the Jodrell Baronets, assuming the title in 1882.
Major Sir William George Coxen, 1st Baronet was a British merchant and politician.
Sir Maurice Jenks, 1st Baronet, was the 604th Lord Mayor of London from 1931–1932.
Sir Charles Albert Batho, 1st Baronet was Lord Mayor of London from 1927 to 1928.
Sir William Anthony Bowater Russell is a British financier who served as the 692nd Lord Mayor of the City of London from 2019 to 2021.