American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States 1801-9. During his lifetime he owned over 600 slaves.
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Social researcher, economist and reformer, founder of the L.S.E., Born London. Early Socialist. He and his wife, Beatrice Webb, were, with George Bernard Shaw, early members of the Fabian Society...
Vice Chairman and Managing Director of the Savoy Hotel Ltd, 1900 - 1941.
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Born in an African village, he was sold into slavery, first locally, then in England, then in America where he managed to buy his freedom. He returned to England and wrote the first autobiography o...
It was amalgamated under the London Government Act of 1963, with the Metropolitan Borough of Kensington to form the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Labour and Co-operative politician. President of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919. Minister of Transport, 1945-51. Born North Woolwich. Lost a leg in a fairground accident...
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