A member of the British Parliamentary Mission to China in 1942. In December 1943 a Mission of prominent Chinese delegates made a return visit to London. From 1943 to 1948, Lord Ailwyn was President of the China Association.
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Lord Ailwyn
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Sun Yat-Sen
Sun Yat-Sen, 1866 - 1925, father of the Chinese Republic, lived in a house on...
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London Borough of Redbridge
Formed as a merger of various areas of Essex.
Francis Place
Political reformer. Born Drury Lane, into a working family. He became involved in a strike and then in the campaign for suffrage, and then in other social and political reforms. Died Hammersmith.
Thomas Reynolds Bone
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
"Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster" - first line in Shakespeare's Richard II. Fourth son of Edward III. Younger brother to the Black Prince. Uncle to Richard II. Born in Ghent. Lived at th...
Henry Gage Spicer
Chairman of the paper manufacturers Spicers, Ltd, and Associated Companies. 1933 Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. Owned a country estate, 'Holmwood', Sawston, Cambridge (but we can fi...
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Sinking of the Marchioness
The pleasure boat The Marchioness collided with another vessel and sank with the loss of 51 lives. In nearby Southwark Cathedral there is a Marchioness memorial stone. The following comes from a B...
James Bradley Chamberlain
Andrew Behan has kindly researched this frequenter of the Old Bailey: James Bradley Chamberlain was born on 30 June 1795 in Warwick, Warwickshire. He was the eldest son and the second of the five c...
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