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Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

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International organization that brings together scholars and public figures to work toward reducing the danger of armed conflict and to seek solutions to global security threats. Founded by Joseph Rotblat and Bertrand Russell in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, following the release of the Russell–Einstein Manifesto in 1955.

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Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

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Sir Joseph Rotblat

Sir Joseph Rotblat, KCMG, CBE, FRS (1908 - 2005) one of Poland's finest sons,...

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Sir Edwin Chadwick

Sir Edwin Chadwick

Born Lancashire but brought up in London. A friend of Jeremy Bentham, Bentham dying in his arms. Chadwick's major achievement was the 1842 publication of the Poor Law Commissioners' "Report on the ...

Person, Law, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

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George Robinson, 1st  Marquess of Ripon

George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon

Born 10 Downing Street. Politician, son of Prime Minister, Frederick John Robinson. He served in every Liberal cabinet from 1861 until his death. Knighted 1869 and created 1st Marquess of Ripon in ...

Person, Politics & Administration, India

2 memorials
George Sparkes

George Sparkes

London Parks and Gardens Trust provides: In the 1850s No 16 High Street {Bromley} ... was bought by George Sparkes ...{who} renamed the house Neelgherries after the hills of Nilgiris (an alternativ...

Person, Politics & Administration, India

1 memorial
F. L. Chandler

F. L. Chandler

Co-churchwarden of St Mary Abbots, Kensington in 1894.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
W. D. Lambert

W. D. Lambert

Works director of the Brilliant Sign Company in 1938.

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration

1 memorial