USA President 1845 –1849. Signed the documents formally integrating Texas into the United States on 29 December 1845.
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Cecil P. Jarman
Corps Secretary in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1889-1892.
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J. Pateshall Jones, Esq.
One of the managers of the 1873-75 changes at Aske’s Hospital.
R. C. E. Austin
LLM, Town Clerk, active in the 1950s and 60s. Andrew Behan has researched Austin: Robert Charles Edwin Austin LL.M was born on 31 January 1900 in Fulham, the son of Charles Edwin Austin and Mary A...
Edmund Burke
Economist, philosopher, author and statesman. Born in Dublin. MP 1766-94 with the Whig Party.
Tom Goodway
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
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Col. Edward Popham
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Anthony Hope
WC1, Bedford Square, 41
Greater London Council Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (Anthony Hope), 1863 - 1933, novelist, lived here, 1903 - 1917.
King James I
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