Brian Haw
Brian William Haw was a protester and peace campaigner who lived for almost ten years from June 2001 in a peace camp in London's Parliament Square, in a protest against UK and US foreign policy. B...
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Elijah Waring
Anglo-Welsh writer. Born Alton, Hampshire, the son of Quaker parents. Settled in South Wales in about 1810. Founded an English-language periodical, 'The Cambrian Visitor: a Monthly Miscellany' at S...
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Michael Fadil
Fadil fell into the River Lea on a freezing January evening. From Hackney Gazette: "Police were called shortly after 7pm after the man reportedly fell from a boat near to Lea Bridge and The Prince...
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George Henry Peachey-Edwards
George Henry Peachey-Edwards (1894-1972) worked for Bethnal Green Borough Council for forty years, rising to become the Chief Clerk. In 1960 Bethnal Green Borough Council named a block of sheltered...
Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Politics & Administration
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Edmond Lord Sheffield
Politician and sailor. Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire from 1603 to 1619 and Vice-Admiral of Yorkshire from 1604 to 1646. He was created Earl of Mulgrave in 1626. In the conflict with the Spanish Arma...
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Annie Frances Welford
Granddaughter of Richard Welford (1817-1858) who founded and ran Warwick Farm Dairies. Annie Frances Welford was born on 18 March 1871 the fifth of the six children of John Welford (1844-1924) and...
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Pamela F. Bishop
Granddaughter of Annie F. Welford. Pamela F. Bishop was born in 1942, the younger of the two children of William Thomas Bishop (1901-1982) and his second wife Marjorie Bateman Bishop née Leaver (1...
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Percy C. Simmons
Major Sir Percy Coleman Simmons was a a solicitor and local politician. Simmons and Simmons was the legal partnership with his brother, Edward. Served in WW1. A member of the London County Council...
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Sir Lennox Berkeley
Composer. Born in Oxford. He studied in Paris along with Ravel. Here he also became acquainted with Poulenc, Stravinsky, Milhaud, Honneger and Roussel. In 1936 he met Benjamin Britten with whom he ...
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Shakul Islam
Co-ordinator of Boundary Community School in 1995.
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