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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Edward Couchman Beedell
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
1 memorial
Edmund Halsey
Born Hertfordshire, a distant relative of Josiah Child. Joined the Anchor Brewery as a 'broomstick clerk' and rapidly became Child's son-in-law and partner. Ran the brewery 1693-1729. MP for Sou...
1 memorial
Joseph Addison
Politician and writer. Born Milston, Wiltshire.
1 memorial
citizens and senat of Berlin
Berlin has a mayor and an executive making up the Senat, similar to the Greater London Authority.
1 memorial
Sidly Effendi
Effendi, or Efendi, is merely a title of nobility and the name Sidly may well be just one spelling of the Turkish Ambassador's name. We can't identify him.
1 memorial
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