Politician. Born David Grüen in Ptońsk, Russian Empire (modern day Poland). In Palestine in 1919 he founded a socialist party and led the Mapai (Labour) party from 1930. He participated in the St James Conference in London in 1939, which tried to solve the problem of Palestine. Became first Prime Minister of the state of Israel in 1948. Died in Tel Aviv-Yafo.
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David Ben-Gurion
Greater London Council David Ben-Gurion, 1886-1973, first Prime-Minister of I...
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
A member of the British Parliamentary Mission to China in 1942. In December 1943 a Mission of prominent Chinese delegates made a return visit to London. From 1943 to 1948, Lord Ailwyn was President...
Radical. Born Stirlingshire, Scotland. Came to London in 1774. 1792 co-founded the London Corresponding Society, a group advocating wider suffrage and parliamentary reform. Presecuted for high ...
Formed in 1984 by Mark Ashton and his friend Mike Jackson, this group was only wound down in 2015. The London group used the bookshop Gay's the Word as their HQ. The largest fund-raising event was ...
PC Alfred Smith, 1880 - 1917, was killed at this site saving factory workers during a WW1 air raid, 13 June 1917. London Borough of Islin...
A minister in the Moravian church and the Aldersgate bookseller of John Wesley's Journal. He convened the meeting at which John Wesley's second conversion took place.
Also known as "Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes". The purposes of the Trustees are commemoration of the Aldersgate Conversion of John and Charles Wesley in May 1738.
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