Irish leader,'The Liberator' or 'The Emancipator'. Born Ireland. Campaigned for the right for Catholics to vote and sit as MPs and also for Ireland to be separated from Great Britain. Came to London first to study at Lincoln's Inn but then repeatedly as part of his campaigning work. Ill, he was advised to go to a warmer clime so he set off on pilgrimage to Rome but he died on the journey, in his hotel rooms in Genoa.
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Daniel O'Connell
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Daniel O'Connell
O'Connell lived here with his wife and children from February 1833 for up to ...
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Ho Chi Minh
Communist revolutionary and founder of modern Vietnam. Left Vietnam in 1911 and worked on ships as a kitchen helper. In New York he was a baker at the Parker House Hotel. In 1913 he arrived in Lond...
1 memorial
Shyamji Krishna Varma
Born Gujarat, India. Revolutionary, lawyer, journalist. In 1877 he received the title of 'pandit', a Sanskrit scholar, and came to Oxford for a few years. Returned to India, studied law and develop...
2 memorials
Austrian Centre
A social, cultural and political hub for Austrian exiles from the Nazis. The Centre housed a library, restaurant, theatre, political cabaret, concert venue and functioned as a publisher. It also of...
1 memorial
George Padmore
International activist and renowned pan Africanist (favouring the unification of Africa). Born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse in Trinidad. Travelled a lot. but settled in London in 1935. Worked as ...
Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Africa, Caribbean Islands, Ghana
1 memorial
Lokamanya Tilak
Nationalist and journalist. Born Bal Gangadhar Tilak in the Ratnagiri district, India. He joined the Indian National Congress, but opposed its moderate attitude. Imprisoned for sedition in 1908. He...
1 memorial