Labour leader and politician. Born John Elliott Burns in Vauxhall. in 1889 he played a major part in the London dock strike. Entered parliament in 1892. Appointed president of the Board of Trade in 1914. Died in the Bolingbroke Hospital, Wandsworth.
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John Burns
Member of the Commissioners of the 1890 Bermondsey Library. c.1894-5 a J. Eastty living in Bermondsey was elected to serve on the committee of the Baptist Fund, and in 1887 the British Bee Journal...
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
Chief Executive of Tower Hamlets Community Housing 1999 - 2016 when he stepped down. Social Housing gives: "Mr Tyrrell said he believes the organisation - which was deemed non-compliant on governa...
Principal of the Lambeth School of Arts 1858 - 1900. Born as John Charles Lewis Sparkes in Brixton. Began teaching at Lambeth in 1857. Cultivated a special relationship between the school and Doult...
Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this man: Sergeant Alan Harvey Clayton was born on 15 February 1913 the son of Charles Hedley Clayton and Edith Gertrude Clayton née Wallinger. His ...
This person's grave was destroyed by a WW2 bomb. The name is on the north-east face of the pedestal.
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