St Paul’s. London Cathedral. 1287 Original. 1701 Wren finished.

Stopes, Marie. 1880-1958. British Family Planning pioneer. First London birth control clinic 1921.

Telegraph. 1794 France Semaphore. 1795 England Shutter. 1835 Morse. 1851 London-Paris. 1901 Transatlantic.

Telephone, Wireless. 1926 London-New York.

Trams. 1832 NY. 1853 Paris. 1861 London. 1891 Leeds electric.

Turpin, Dick. 1706-39. Romanticized English highwayman. Mythical York-London ride.

Victorian style. 19C. Neo-Gothic architecture. London Houses of Parliament.

Virginia Company. London. 1606-24. To colonize North America. Founded Jamestown 1607.

Walker, George. 1618-90. Hero of siege of Londonderry, 1688.

Watling Street. Roman road from London to NW England. Part still in use.

Webb, Sidney. 1859-1947. Beatrice. 1858-1943. British Fabian Socialists. Founded London School of Economics, New Statesman 1913.

Whittington, Richard. 1358-1423. London Lord Mayor. Legend of merchant selling his cat for fortune to rat- plagued Moroccan ruler, he marries merchant’s daughter, becomes Lord Mayor.

Wren, Christopher. 1632-1723. English architect. Anglicized Classicism based on French and Dutch influence. Rebuilt 50 churches after 1666 London fire. St. Paul’s 1675. Greenwich Observatory 1675. Associated with craftsmanship of Tijou, Gibbons, Thornhill, Cibber. Sheldonian Theatre 1662. Trinity College Library 1676.

Wyat’s Insurrection. 1554. Failed march on London vs Mary’s marriage to Philip II of Spain. Wyat (son of Thomas Wyat) beheaded.

Zinoviev Letter. 1924. From COMINTERN to London advising worker revolution. Labour defeated.