The first member of the Labour Party to become Speaker of the House of Commons.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Horace Maybray King
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Sir Thomas More statue - SW3
Unveiled by Horace Maybray King, then Speaker of the House of Commons. 2018:...
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Baroness Floella Benjamin, DBE, DL
Trinidadian-British actress, singer, presenter, author and politician. Known as presenter of children's programmes such as Play School, Play Away, Jamboree and Fast Forward. On 28 June 2010, Lady B...
Person, Children, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, TV & Radio, Caribbean Islands
1 memorial
A. A. Allen
Arthur Acland Allen was born on 11 August 1868 the youngest of the five children of Peter Allen (1815-1892) and Sophia Russell Allen née Taylor (1826-1868), in Prestwich, Lancashire. His mother die...
2 memorials
Ellen Wilkinson
NUWSS in Manchester, Labour MP for Jarrow. As Jarrow MP she played a prominent role in the 1936 Jarrow March. Minister of Education from July 1945 until her death. Born Manchester. Had a close per...
1 memorial
2 memorials
Shridath Ramphal
Born in New Amsterdam, British Guyana as Shridath Surendranath Ramphal and known as 'Sonny'. He served as Assistant Attorney General of the West Indies Federation from 1958 to 1962, Foreign Ministe...
1 memorial
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French's Dairy conduit
WC1, Rugby Street, 13
The nice lady in the shop told us that it is a 2 metre square white marble well head with 16th century graffiti. It's under the floor and...
2 subjects commemorated
Royal Mail
Before the 2012 Olympics started the Royal Mail committed to turn a red post box gold for each British Gold medal, Olympic and Paralympic. In the event this meant that over 100 boxes turned colour...
14 memorials
Ronald Reagan
Actor and 40th President of the USA, 1981 - 1989. Honorary knighthood - Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Best film line? In the 1942 film "King's Row" on realising that his legs have...
Person, Cinema, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, USA
2 memorials
Animals in war - horses
W1, Brook Gate
This is an impressive memorial but many people find it over-sentimental. Like most war memorials it insists we remember the fallen but in...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Thankfull Sturdee
SE8, Bolden Street, 16
Borough of Lewisham Thankfull Sturdee, 1852 - 1934, local historian and photographer, lived here, 1900-1903.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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