Born Bermondsey as John Molesworth Thomas Dumphreys. Member of the Commissioners of the 1890 Bermondsey Library. Mayor of Bermondsey in 1907. A Conservative, he briefly replaced Dr Cooper as MP for Bermondsey in 1909-10.
Photo credit: Southwark Art Collection.
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John Dumphreys
This public library was erected 1890-1. Commissioners: A. Lafone, MP - Chairm...
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Church warden of St Mary Aldermary, 1989 - 2000. Andrew Behan has kindly provided the following research: Douglas Alfred Barber was born on 31 March 1928 in Romford, Essex, the youngest of the thr...
Corps Secretary in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1889-1892.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
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In 2018 a high fence removed the Pavlova plaque from view. But at about the time the Bowman plaque was erected in 2019 the height of the ...
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