Author and political activist. Born China as Li Yaotang. Ba Jin was his pen name. Learnt and advocated Esperanto. Spent 1927-8 in France. Returned to Shanghai. From 1983 suffered with Parkinson's Disease. Died Shanghai.
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Ba Jin
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Anarchists
This art work is in the style of Donald Rooum. He was the Anarchists' self-ef...
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William Aldous
Co-overseer of the Westminster Union workhouse in 1826.
1 memorial
Duke of Buccleuch
Walter Francis Montagu Douglas Scott. Also had the title: 7th Duke of Roseberry. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951. Born Dalkeith House, Midlothian. Died at Bowhill, Selkirk....
1 memorial
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W. Rea Edwards, OBE, ACA
William Rea Edwards was Superintendent Secretary in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1892-1900. Knight Grace in the Order of St John. Inver Museum has a photo of a Rea-Edwards mo...
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
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Lord Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose
Born 20 Charles Street. Prime Minister, 1894-5, and first Chairman of the London County Council (1889-90, 1892-3). On the death of his wife, Hannah, he was subjected to accusations of homosexuality...
3 memorials
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Richard Kindersley
Sculptor and lettering artist, following his father's David's path. Other London work includes the unusual 'Seven ages of man' sited in what must be one of Central London's grimmest locations at B...
9 memorials
Columbia Market
In 1852, the area Novia Scotia Gardens being a notorious slum, Angela Burdett-Coutts bought it with the intention of developing healthy accommodation for the poor and a market for their use. Howeve...
2 memorials
Gospel Lighthouse Mission
Our drawing, from Exploring Southwark,shows the building to the right of the Mission before the Club building arrived.This website also gives the history of the construction of the two buildings, a...
1 memorial
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