Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet
Home Secretary 1841-46. Born Cumberland.
Peter Graham
On the Executive Committee for the 1851 Great Exhibition Memorial.
Grand Lodge of England
By 1717 the Masonic lodges were already clubs having no connection to stone-masonry. Four London lodges met at the Goose and Gridiron pub in St Paul's Churchyard and formed the first Grand Lodge, i...
Group, Community / Clubs, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration
Bernie Grant
Politician. Born Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana). His family emigrated to England in 1963, where he worked as a railway clerk and telephonist before be...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, South America
Charles Grant
Anti-slavery campaigner. Born Scotland. Made a fortune working for the British East India Company of which he became Chairman. The death of two of his children brought about a religious conversi...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion, Scotland
Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg
Born Bengal, his father being Chairman of the East India Company. Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1835-39. Never married. Died at Cannes where he had lived his final years.
Person, Politics & Administration, Indian Sub-continent, Scotland
David Grant
Borough Councillor. He was Mayor of the Royal Borough of Greenwich in 2012.
Earl Granville, George Leveson-Cower
MP and colliery owner. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951. Born Great Stanhope Street. Died 14 South Audley Street.
Greater London Council
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
