Cobden House
This block was built in 1958 by the London County Council and was named after Richard Cobden (1804 - 1865), who was a liberal statesman and a member of the anti-corn laws league.
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E2, Nelson Gardens
See St Peter's Close. As far as we can discover Richard Cobden had no particular association with this area.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Cobden House
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
Political economist and Liberal MP. Born near Midhurst, Sussex, into a large ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Cobden House
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In later life he became a school caretaker in Tower Hamlets, which is the only connection we can find between him and the area.
The quotation compares The Cock with Vauxhall Gardens.
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London Docks has many photographs with very useful captions. These make it clear that of the two buildings on the Quay named Commodity Qu...
Indian scholar and reformer. Born Bengal. Worked to abolish the Hindu tradition of sati, where a widow joins her husband on the funeral pyre. For his last three years he was the ambassador to Bri...
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