Anti-apartheid activist. Born Stephen Bantu Biko in Ginsberg Township, in what is now the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. He was initially involved with the multiracial National Union of Sou...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, South Africa
Suffragette. Born in Lewisham. As a child, she survived poliomyelitis and had to use crutches or a tricycle, modified as a wheelchair. She was active in the women's suffrage movement and founded th...
Corps Treasurer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1908-1914.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Soldier and then member of parliament.
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
Lawyer and politician. Born Frederick Edwin Smith in Pilgrim Street, Birkenhead. Called to the bar in 1899 and entered parliament in 1906. He became Attorney-General and Lord Chancellor. Successful...
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
Mayor of West Ham, 1900 - 01. From Sludge G: "Born Worle, nr Weston-super-Mare, Somerset 1838, died West Ham May 16, 1917. In 1881, Plasterer employing 10 men, living at 1 Victoria Villas, Essex St...
Member of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee, West Ham, 1905.
Organisation that was the external arm of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). An anti-apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s after the banning of the African ...
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