Politician. Born Dora Creditor near Riga, Latvia, and known as Anna. Her family emigrated to Britain in 1903. After her first marriage failed, she met and married the future Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell. Created a life peer in 1964, with the title Baroness Gaitskell of Egremont. Died at her home 18 Frognall Gardens, Hampstead.
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Baroness Gaitskell
{The top plaque:} These flats erected for the Stoke Newington Borough Council...
Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.
Co-churchwarden of Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, August 1817. British History Online has some houses in nearby Ansdell Street being built for a 'Thomas Chancellor' which we think might well be o...
Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, 1926.
Born Woking. Started life as an apprentice brick-layer. MP and extremely wealthy construction entrepreneur. Often called Morton Peto. Father of Harold. In 1853 Peto bought the Regent's Park Diora...
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
