Born Bangladesh. First directly elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets, 2010. In 2015 he was found to be "personally guilty" of "corrupt or illegal practices, or both" and was removed from office.
After forming the new Aspire party, he returned as Mayor of Tower Hamlets in 2022.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Lutfur Rahman
Marvell wrote 'The Garden', the poem which is quoted here.
Writer, broadcaster and former M.P. Born Gyles Daubeney Brandreth in Germany where his father was serving as a legal officer with the Allied Control Commission. Famous for his over the top knitwear...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, TV & Radio, Germany
Canadian diplomat and politician. Born in Vancouver. He was the 34th Premier of British Columbia from 2001 to 2011, leader of the British Columbia Liberal Party and from 2011 to 2016, Canadian High...
Lord Mayor of London 1762 and 1769. Born Jamaica. Inherited a fortune from the family slave-based business. Lived at 22 Soho Square (the house has been demolished) from 1751 until his death while t...
Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Jamaica
From Gloucestershire, a distant relation of Oliver Cromwell. Supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. He was a General at Sea, major-general. One of the Commissioners for Charles...
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
"Friend & fellow worker of Margaret Damer Dawson". All we can find on-line are auction sites with the flower paintings of Ann (or Anne or Annie) St John Partridge, so we've used one of those fo...
Died while Primewarden of the Fishmongers Company.
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