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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Sun Yat-Sen
Sun Yat-Sen, 1866 - 1925, father of the Chinese Republic, lived in a house on...
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C. Cowley
Chairman of the Electricity Committee of the Willesden District Council in 1902.
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Councillor, Rebecca Elsbury
Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, 1926. Councillor and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926. Probably married to Sam.
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G. L. Banks
Secretary of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919.
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J. B. Bennie
Councillor in the Borough of Hammersmith in 1948. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man : James Bishop Bennie was born on 11 July 1898 at Manse Road, Corstorphine, Midlothian, Scotlan...
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Eadweard Muybridge
Photographer and motion picture pioneer. Born Edward James Muggeridge in Kingston upon Thames. He changed his name, probably inspired by the recent discovery in Kingston of a Saxon coronation stone...
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World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
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World War 2
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps. And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...
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El Alamein
Town in Egypt. The name means 'two worlds'. It was the scene of two battles in 1942, fought by Britain and its allies against the axis of Germany and Italy.
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