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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Eva Strasburger
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Councillor C. H. Pettet
Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, 1926.
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Happy Mahlangu
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Sir (Charles) Vyner Brooke
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Margaret Jane McGoldrick
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 38. Buried in grave 5 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
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Bunny Wailer / Bunny Livingston
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Mercers' Company
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Sir Francis Bacon
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