Born Moscow into an ancient aristocratic Russian family and highly educated but his sympathies were with the peasants who had looked after him as a child. His revolutionary activities brought exile to Switzerland and France and to London in 1881 and again 1886 - 1917. Here he mixed with William Morris, Ford Madox Ford and Keir Hardie and co-founded the Freedom Press. Lived in Harrow and Bromley.
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Peter Kropotkin
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Anarchists
This art work is in the style of Donald Rooum. He was the Anarchists' self-ef...
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Charles W. Bowerman
Veteran of the printing trade union movement. Delegate to the founding conference of the Labour party in 1900 and Labour MP for Deptford for almost 30 years. President of the Trades Union Congress.
1 memorial
Hugh Gater Jenkins
Politician. Born Blenheim Dairy, Lancaster Road, Enfield. MP for Putney, 1964- 1979. Minister for the Arts, later Baron Jenkins of Putney. Died at Lynde House nursing home, Cambridge Park, Twickenham.
3 memorials
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
Born Wiltshire. His daughter, Anne married the Duke of York, who eventually became James II. His son was Henry. Close to Charles II even before the Restoration he was appointed his Chancellor of t...
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J. F. Rumball
Corps Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1887-1889.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Sir Duncan Randolph Wilson, CVO, CBE.
The Kensington and Chelsea Virtual Museum has a photo of the Wilsons' home in Sydney Place captioned with: "During his visits to England Hungarian composer Bela Bartok regularly stayed with Freda a...
Person, Community / Clubs, Friend / family, Politics & Administration
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Dan Leno
SW9, Akerman Road, 56
Dan Leno, 1860 - 1904, music-hall comedian, lived here, 1898 - 1901. London County Council
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Thomas Gray
Poet. Born Cornhill. Wrote ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ and the lesser-known ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes’ about Horace Walpole's cat. Died Cam...
2 memorials
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