Politician and journalist. Born Plymouth. Leader of the Labour party 1980-1983. Married to feminist film-maker and author, Jill Craigie (1911-1999), who appears with him in our picture.
His Wikipedia page gives details of his life. He died, aged 96 years, on 3 March 2010 and his funeral service took place on 15 March 2010 at Golders Green Crematorium, 62 Hoop Lane, London, NW11 7NL.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Michael Mackintosh Foot
The statue, by Ian Walters and unveiled (very appropriately) by Michael Foot,...
The quote “they went….other way” is a paraphrase of two lines from C. Day Lew...
Orwell lived here for 6 months in 1935 while he was working in the South End ...
Late Chairman of the Police Committee of the Corporation of London in 1926. Wikipedia lists him as a Sheriff of the City of London in that same year which, together with the "late", rather suggests...
Born in Essex. Caught supporting the wrong side when Edward IV assumed the throne, he was arrested and convicted of high treason which led to the loss of his head at Tower Hill.
For an understanding of just how splintered the extreme left is just go to Wikipedia page for Communist Party of Great Britain (disambiguation). But it seems they agreed long enough to create a s...
Grocer and Liberal politician. Full name Frederick Charlwood Frye. Started a chain of shops in 1870 and by 1894 was running 50 stores across England and Ireland. Was a member of the Metropolitan Bo...
