Born Shropshire. As a student worked as a bus conductor then joined a bus company and worked his way up until he was Chief Executive of the Go Ahead bus company. Appointed OBE for services to transport in 2006.
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Chris Moyes
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Liberal Party
Founded at a meeting in Almack's / Willis's Rooms, when 280 Whig, Liberal, former Peelite and radical MPs met to agree on a strategy to remove Lord Derby's Conservative government. The Guardian re...
1 memorial
Failure of the World Disarmament Conference
Wikipedia. War in History refers to the efforts to prohibit aerial bombing.
1 memorial
William Beckford, Alderman
Lord Mayor of London 1762 and 1769. Born Jamaica. Inherited a fortune from the family slave-based business. Lived at 22 Soho Square (the house has been demolished) from 1751 until his death while t...
Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Jamaica
1 memorial
Tolpuddle Martyrs
6 Dorset farm labourers, transported to Australia for joining a trade union. Following mass protests against their treatment the government was forced to give pardons and eventually after 2 years, ...
2 memorials
Joseph Beck
Saving Clissold Park have some lovely old photos of this man but they have eschewed the normal form of potted biography and instead have provided 13 bullets points: Chairman of the Clissold Par...
2 memorials
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Essex Hall
WC2, Essex Street, Essex Hall
More information about the creation of the building at The Story of Essex Hall. The foundation stone is below the Essex Street & Ess...
3 subjects commemorated
EMI
Music record label. Electric and Musical Industries Ltd was formed in London in March 1931 by the merger of the Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company. See there for EMI's beginnin...
2 memorials