Member of the Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall.
Describing the Bethnal Green councillors at this time, British History gives: "Some later called themselves Liberals, among them Garnham Edmonds of Edmonds & Mears tripe dressers, a councillor in 1902, religious and social worker and for long chairman of the Liberal Association, mayor in 1907, member of the L.C.C. 1910-22, and M.P. in 1922."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Garnham Edmonds
Borough of Bethnal Green This stone was laid Sept. 23rd 1909 by the Mayor A. ...
Radical, MP and temperance advocate, nicknamed "Dry Wilf". Second Baronet of Brayton.Member of Parliament for Carlisle, Cockermouth, Camborne, 1859-1906. President of the United Kingdom Alliance...
Person, Food & Drink, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare
Bangladesh Awami League politician. The first Railway Minister of Bangladesh.
Anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and International elder statesman. Born in a village near Umtata in the Transkei, South Africa. Gaoled 5th August 1962, sentenced to life imprisonment 12...
Person, Peace, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, South Africa
Born 4 Park Street (which is now 20 Queen Anne's Gate) as Henry John Temple. Liberal Prime Minister 1855 - 58 and 1859 - 65. See First passenger underground. Died Brocket, Hertfordshire, his wife'...
Elected to Brentford Council in 1901 and vice chairman in 1903 but that does not explain why he was honoured with being placed on Andrew Carnegie's immediate right in this group shot. He certainly ...
Painter, lover of the arts and benefactor of Regents Park. Born London. 1907 he bought Grove House (sometimes Nuffield House) in Regent's Park, near St John's Wood church. Set up the Constance F...
Firefighter who died as a result of a fire at Langley Street, WC2. Rawden, Hawkins and Gadd died 11-23 May 1954. Our colleague, Andrew Behan, expands upon this information. Arthur Edmund John Batt...
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