Born Oldham. Author, journalist, doctor and member of parliament. Served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Boer War, WW1 and WW2, winning a Military Cross.
First Jewish Labour Party candidate. Grandfather of actor Christopher Guest who is the 5th Baron Haden-Guest.
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Lord Leslie Haden-Guest
Publishers at 65 Cornhill (the picture) until 1868. Also at 15 Waterloo Place. Their first big success was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. They also published: Thackeray, Darwin, Ruskin, Browning...
On 1 September 1773 A. Bell Booksellers published a volume of poems by Phillis Wheatley. At this time book publishers and sellers were often the same people.
Nurse, journalist, broadcaster, novelist and 'agony aunt'. Born Claire Berenice Chetwynd in London. Her early life was marred by the cruelty of her parents who put her in a psychiatric hospital wh...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Medicine, TV & Radio, Canada
Architect, journalist and social reformer. Editor of "The Builder". Honorary Secretary to the Executive Committee for the Great Exhibition Memorial. Born in Brompton Terrace, Kensington. Died at h...
Person, Architecture, Journalism / Publishing, Social Welfare
Born Bath, Somerset. Editor and eventually proprietor of the Manchester Guardian. He was a Liberal member of parliament from 1895 to 1905 and embraced the causes of female suffrage and a Jewish nat...