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London | Wandsworth

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.

Wandsworth once lay in Surrey and is today one of the 13 boroughs making up Inner London. To its east lies the London borough of Lambeth and its northern border lies on the River Thames.

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Actors and Directors

Margaret Rutherford was born in Balham in 1892. Best known for her depiction of Miss Marple she also won an Academy Award for the 1963 film The V.I.P.s.

Margaret Rutherford

The film director Carol Reed was born in Putney in 1906. He directed The Third Man in 1949 and won an Academy Award for the 1968 musical Oliver!.

Carol Reed

Prime Ministers

18th Century

William Pitt, the Younger, twice Prime Minister in 1783-1801 and 1804-06, died at his home Bowling Green House in Putney Heath (then in Surrey) in 1806. He is buried in Westminster Abbey. The second son of the former Prime Minister the Earl of Chatham, he was aged only 24 in 1783, the youngest Prime Minister ever.

Pitt the Younger's second administration was faced with the growing Napoleonic threat to Europe and it was Pitt who formed the coalition of countries which defeated the French at the Battle of Trafalgar. Pitt's glory was shortlived and in the same year the coalition fell apart and Napoleon was victorious at Austerlitz. Pitt died the following year and it was nearly a decade before Napoleon was eventually defeated at Waterloo in 1815.

William Pitt, the Younger

Battle of Trafalgar

Famous people buried at Westminster Abbey

19th Century

Prime Minister in 1827-28, Frederick Robinson, Viscount Goderich died at Putney Heath (then in Surrey) n 1859.

Viscount Goderich

20th Century

Prime Minister from 1945-51, Clement Attlee was born in Putney (then in Surrey) in 1883. His Labour administration governed in the turbulent post-war years and revolutionized British society by introducing the Welfare State including in 1948 the National Health Service. In 1947 and 1948 India and Burma gained independence, the beginnings of the dismantling of the British Empire.

Clement Attlee

Welfare State