Alderman, J.P. and Mayor of West Ham in November 1905.
London Wikia records: Businessman and local politician. Born Canning Town, he was made a partner in the business founded by his father, which became John Byford & Son. They were lime, cement and brick merchants of Poplar. 1898 elected to West Ham Borough Council, becoming an alderman in 1901 and served as Mayor of West Ham 1904-5. Knighted in 1925.
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John Byford, junior
The composer of this plaque has been very mean with first names and initials.
Irish-born insurance executive and pioneer of National Health Insurance. In 1894 he became general manager of the London, Edinburgh and Glasgow Insurance Company and joined the board of directors ...
Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1937.
Politician. Worked closely with Richard Cobden in the campaign for the repeal of the Corn Laws. As a Quaker he was opposed to inequalities between individuals and groups; as a member of a mill-ow...
Probably inherited the title in 1690. Mother was Susanna Noel.
Looking across the river you can see the low roof of St Magnus the Martyr between the two modern blocks.
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