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The
County of London was formed in 1889 from parts of the ancient counties
of Middlesex, Kent and Surrey, with
the City of London remaining an independent body.In 1965 Greater London was formed, taking in the rest of Middlesex (which no longer existed as a county) together with parts of Essex and Hertfordshire and further areas of Kent and Surrey. 
Greater
London is made up of 13 Inner and 19 Outer London boroughs together
with the City of London.
Hammersmith and Fulham once lay in Middlesex and
is today one of the 13 boroughs making up Inner London. It borders
the River Thames to its south and to the east the London borough of
Kensington and Chelsea.
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In
1929 the actor, playwright and screenwriter John
Osborne was born as John James Osborne in Fulham. After working
as a journalist and as a stage actor he defined post-war theatre in
Britain with his third play Look Back in Anger which premiered
in London in 1956. The play showed a new generation of young working-class men who felt betrayed and frustrated by post-war Britain. Osborne was the first in what became known as the angry young men, writers who created kitchen sink dramas, showing working-class Britain as it really was. Osborne wrote screenplays too and was awarded an Academy Award for his screenplay adaptation of Tom Jones (1963).  John
Osborne
The actor Hugh Grant was
born in Hammersmith in 1960.
He attracted critical acclaim for his debut professional film role
in the Merchant-Ivory production of E.M. Forster's Maurice
(1987).He appeared in Roman Polanski's Bitter Moon (1992) and in the Merchant-Ivory production of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day (1993). In 1994 he starred in the runaway success Four Weddings and a Funeral which brought him global fame. He starred in many successful romantic-comedies and now and then showed some of his early edginess: in 2018 he played Jeremy Thorpe, the disgraced British politician, in the BBC television miniseries A Very British Scandal and in 2019 played a corrupt private investigator in Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen. Hugh
Grant (1994)
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Anglo-Saxon Kings
Danish Kings |
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The
borough once lay in Middlesex which once formed the kingdom
the kingdom of the Middle Saxons, so
named because their kingdom lay between those of the East Saxons (Essex)
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In
1896 the painter, craftsman, poet, publisher and socialist William
Morris
died at his home Kelmscott
House at Hammersmith.
William
Morris
William Morris Society
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The abolitionist
Granville Sharp died in Fulham in 1813. Together with a group
of abolitionists which included Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce
he campaigned against the trade in people. In 1833, twenty years after
his death, his work would bear fruit when Parliament passed a law
which finally ended slavery in the British Empire and its colonies.
The athlete and middle-distance runner
Sebastian Coe was born as Sebastian Newbold Coe in Hammersmith
in 1956 and dominated his discipline in the 1980s together with his
great rival Steve Ovett and Steve Cram. Coe set eight world records. At the 1980 Moscow Olympics he won a gold medal at 1500m (Ovett won the bronze, a young Cram came in eighth). At 800m Coe won a silver in Moscow (Steve Ovett won the gold). Coe repeated his success at Los Angeles in 1984 winning gold at 1500m (Steve Cram won the silver, an ill Steve Ovett dropped out in the last lap). Coe also won silver at the 800m in Los Angeles (Ovett came in eighth due to his illness). |
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