Commemorating Yorkshire History
The erecting of Yorkshire Rose plaques to mark the contributions of famous Yorkshire men and women.
To date plaques have commemorated:
- Percy Shaw, inventor of cats eyes
- Thomas Spencer, joint founder of Marks & Spencer
- Henry Moore, Sculptor
- Christopher Saxton, Cartographer to Queen Elizabeth I of England
- The former Lord St. Oswald, first ever Vice President of the Society
- Colonel North, for granting Kirkstall Abbey and grounds to the people
- Viscount Herbert Henry Asquith, former Prime Minister
- Sir Donald Bailey, inventor of the Bailey Bridge
- Herbert Smith, aircraft designer
- Benjamin Latrobe, architect of the United States Capitol, Washington DC
- Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, former Prime Minister
- Benjamin Shaw, textile manufacturer
- Sir Martin Frobisher, explorer
- Kit Calvert, "saviour of Wensleydale cheese" (turned the Wensleydale Creamery at Hawes into a farmers' cooperative when it was threatened with closure in the 1930s)
- Mary Ward, an English Roman Catholic nun who founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also known as the Sisters of Loreto.
Acting as host for the annual Yorkshire History Awards.
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Famous quotes containing the word history:
“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)