William Eaden Lilley was the owner of the Eaden Lilley haberdashery and hardware store in Cambridge from 1839 to 1883, when his son (also named William Eaden Lilley) took over.
Eaden Lilley was founded in Cambridge as a haberdashery in 1760, and was renamed Eaden Lilley in 1839. It was based on Showmakers Row, and later moved to Market Street, selling linens, drapery, hardware, and oils for lighting and heating. By the 1880s, there were further branches in Sidney Street and Green Street. By the early 1900s, Eaden Lilley - now described as a department store - offered other services, including removals. In 1934, they moved the contents of Cambridge University Library across the city (presumably when the current University Library was opened). The Cambridge Eaden Lilley store closed in 1999, but the business continued to operate in other areas until it went into administration in 2009.
William Eade was the nephew of William French, who was made Master of Jesus College in 1820.
E Wingfield-Bowles and Partners were consulting engineers based in Old Queen Street, London. They were previously based at 28 Victoria Street, London.
E. Tomlinson Fort is a historian based in Pennsylvania, USA. As of 2020 he is a researcher at the Pennsylvania Association of Numismatists.
Eldred Evans and David Shalev were architects who collaborated from the 1960s on a number of significant projects. Most notably, they were responsible for the design of the Tate Gallery in St. Ives, Cornwall, the Bede Museum in Jarrow, and the Quincentenary Library at Jesus College. Evans and Shalev married in 2001, and David died in 2018.
"This private bank was formed in 1804 by the Foster family, corn millers, whose milling business continued until 1915. It was also known as the Cambridge & Cambridgeshire Bank. Many customers were drawn from the local agricultural industry. By 1904 branches existed at St Ives (1830), St Neots (1830), Royston (1834), Ely (1835), Newmarket (1844), Bishop's Stortford (1874), Littleport (1889), Saffron Walden (1901) and Wisbech. Capital & Counties Bank (est. 1877) acquired the bank in 1904."