Person    | Male  Born 8/8/1883  Died 6/12/1964

Charles William Key

Born Buckinghamshire into a poor family. Became teacher then headmaster. Alderman in 1937 and in 1946 MP for Bow and Bromley and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health.

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Charles William Key

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Poplar Town Hall - foundation

 Listed Grade II  The text includes: "The councillors' entrance has a cantile...

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Leila Campbell

Leila Campbell

Born as Leila Jaffe on 10 August 1911 her birth was registered in Birkenhead, Cheshire. She was the elder daughter of Myers Jaffe (1883-1961) and Rebecca Jaffe née Neiman (1879-1965) and when the 1...

Person, Politics & Administration, Theatre

1 memorial
Alderman Charles Fisher Yates

Alderman Charles Fisher Yates

Mayor of Hackney 1933-34. The picture shows him (the mayor, on the left) at the 1934 ceremony to bury a 'time capsule', a brass canister, below the foundation stone of the current Town Hall in Mare...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee

Politician. Born Clement Richard Attlee at Westcott, 18 Portinscale Road, Putney. In 1919 he became the first Labour mayor of Stepney and entered parliament in 1922. He served as Dominions Secretar...

Person, Politics & Administration

5 memorials
Jo Swinson

Jo Swinson

 MP, Under Secretary of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
J. E. Stanley Lewis

J. E. Stanley Lewis

Born in Ottawa.  Ottawa's longest serving mayor, 1936 to 1948.  The photo shows him in 1946 the year of the planting of the tree that he gifted but we don't think he was at the event.

Person, Benefactor, Politics & Administration, Canada

1 memorial

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Samuel Lloyd Howard, DL, JP

Samuel Lloyd Howard, DL, JP

1883, Trustee of Lopping Hall, Loughton. Born Tottenham. Died Menton, France. From "Photographic pedigree of the descendants of Isaac and Rachel Wilson" (1912) via Flickr: "Samuel Lloyd Howard, of...

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, France

1 memorial
J. & E. Hall, Dartford

J. & E. Hall, Dartford

From Dartford Archive: "In the early days the company specialised in heavy foundry-based engineering. Later on, the company developed a specialisation in refrigeration engineering." We wondered wh...

Group, Craft / Design, Engineering

1 memorial