Whig politician. Grandson of the first Baron, and nephew of Charles James Fox. Born Wiltshire and orphaned by the age of 5.
Owned 401 slaves. Express Informer provides "‘By the unexpected death of his wife’s first husband in 1800, Holland found himself the reluctant, but effectual proprietor of the Vassall plantations in Jamaica." He claimed to abhor slavery, but apparently not enough to free the slaves as soon as they came into his ownership.
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Lord Holland, Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland
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Politician. Born in Redcar, Yorkshire. He was the first directly elected Mayor of the Borough of Lewisham, holding the post 2002-18. Knighted in 2007.
Member of Housing Committee, Diss Street 1922. Councillor and Vice-Chair of the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926. Councillor and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926.
Catalan free-thinker and anarchist. Born near Barcelona. Executed for armed rebellion in Barcelona.
Caltagirone is the town in Sicily, Italy, where Luigi Sturzo was born.
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