Barrister, Liberal MP, Postmaster General 1892-5. From Ornamental Passions:
Morley has gone down in history for a staggeringly wrong assessment of the market potential of a new technology. In in 1895 he told the House of Commons: "There is a great distinction between telephone companies and gas and water companies. Gas and water are requisites for every inhabitant in a district, but the telephone cannot, and never will be, an advantage which can be enjoyed by large masses of the working classes." Wrong and sneering. Brilliant.
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Arnold Morley
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Arnold Morley keystone
Morley opened this building. With the pupil-less eyes this looks like a death...
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Samuel Henry Dauncey
Vice-President of the Chelsea Temperance Society in 1908.
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Arthur B. Bryceson
Town Clerk and joint Honorary Secretary of the statue committee, Woolwich Council in 1905. We found reference to him still Town Clerk there in 1923.
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Councillor Herbert Dyer
Member of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee, West Ham, 1905. This Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health, West Ham, 1909 gives more of his name, referring to 'Herbert Dyer'.
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Downs Hotel
The Pickwick Bicycle Club was founded here on 22 June 1870. At that first meeting, it was decided that the Downs Hotel should be the general rendezvous for bi-weekly excursions on Wednesdays and Sa...
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