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."
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Garnham Edmonds
Borough of Bethnal Green This stone was laid Sept. 23rd 1909 by the Mayor A. ...
Labour politician. Born at 240 Ferndale Road, Brixton (from Oxford Dictionary of Biography; Wikipedia differs). Leader of the London County Council, 1934–1940. As Minister of Supply briefly in 1940...
Electred Speaker of the House of Commons in 1728, a post he held for a record-setting 33 years. Born Chelsea. View from the Mirror credits Onslow with the invention of kerbstones.
Co-churchwarden of the Surrey Chapel parish in 1820.
Served on Westminster council from 2002 until her death in 2010. She was Lord Mayor of Westminster from 1994-1995. Awarded the C.B.E. for her work as a senior agent at Conservative Central Office.
Chairman of the Parliamentary and General Purposes Committee, St Pancras Vestry in 1897.
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