Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Jim Rugless
Commemorated ati
Poplar Rate Rebels mural - 1
The mural refers to "30 councillors" but actually names only 29. The count o...
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Lord Aberdare, Henry Austin Bruce
1st Baron Aberdare. Born Dyffryn Aberdare, Glamorgan. Statesman, serving as Home Secretary and President of the Council. He reformed British licensing laws and headed a commission that established ...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Thomas Cromwell
Born Putney. Executed on Tower Hill by order of Henry VIII, while Henry married Katherine Howard, wife number 5. Oliver Cromwell is descended from one of Thomas's sisters, whose husband changed hi...
5 memorials
William Nicholson
Distiller, politician, cricket player, benefactor. Born Upper Holloway into a gin distillery family. They made Lamplighter gin at Three Mills on the River Lea. The business moved into running pu...
1 memorial
Zachary Macaulay
Anti-slavery campaigner. Born Scotland. Aged 16 emigrated to Jamaica and saw slavery first hand as a slave overseer on a sugar plantation. Returned to England 1789. Sister Jean’s husband, Thomas Ba...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Africa, Jamaica, Scotland
4 memorials
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Shaheed Minar martyrs
Those killed during the Bengali Language Movement demonstrations in 1952. At this time Bangladesh was part of Eastern Pakistan and the rulers of Pakistan were seeking to impose Urdu on the Bengalis...
1 memorial
Louis-Napoleon, Prince Imperial
BR7, Prince Imperial Road
Ao. Di. instead of A.D. is very unusual. Fecit is Latin: 'he made it'.
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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