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Sir Stephen Lewis Courtauld MC FRGS (27 February 1883 – 9 October 1967) was an English philanthropist associated with geographical exploration, the restoration of Eltham Palace in south-east London, and cultural and education causes, both in the UK and in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where he and his wife Virginia also donated to organisations promoting racial equality.
Eltham Palace is a large house at Eltham (/ ˈ ɛ l t əm / EL-təm) in southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The house consists of the medieval great hall of a former royal residence , to which an Art Deco extension was added in the 1930s.
Attacked in Eltham, London, died at Guy's Hospital: Clouson, 17, was found with serious head injuries on Kidbrooke Lane, Eltham, in the early hours of 26 April 1871. She died on 30 April and was two months pregnant at the time. Clouson's boyfriend, Edmund Pook, was first tried for her murder at a coroner's trial and found guilty of wilful murder.
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Mah-Jongg or Jongy was a ring-tailed lemur owned by Virginia and Stephen Courtauld, wealthy English philanthropists from a family of industrialists.. Jongy was purchased at Harrods, one of London's most upmarket department stores, in 1923 and lived with the Courtaulds for fifteen years, accompanying the couple on their travels and changes of residence.
Mohamed Al Fayed, former owner of the famed Harrods department store in London whose son was killed in a car crash with Princess Diana, has died, his family saidx Friday. Al Fayed, a self-made ...
The wife of Roop Gupta, who was killed three years ago during an attempted robbery at his Madeira convenience store, didn't attend Monday's sentencing for the man who shot her husband.. She ...
Eltham Palace. Eltham lies on a high, sandy plateau which gave it a strategic significance. That, and the fact of its position close to the main route to the English Channel ports in Kent, led to the creation of the moated medieval Eltham Palace, still its most notable landmark. Daniel Lysons [3] described its origins.