Priest and social reformer. Born Australia to parents who were there as missionaries. Educated in England. Vicar of Christ Church, Watney Street from 1929-48. Held left-wing views that he acted upon to the extent of suffering a broken nose at the Battle of Cable Street. 1948 he became warden, and later master, of the Royal Foundation of St Katharine, Died at Oxford.
The drawing of Groser is by Ronald Searle and the picture source website gives a full biography of Groser.
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Reverend St John Groser
The Reverend St John Groser, 1890 - 1966, priest and social reformer, lived h...
Founded in Manchester by Richard Cobden with the objective of having the Corn Laws abolished. This achieved, the League was dissolved. The Corn Laws imposed a high import tax on foreign grain, th...
Copenhagen House was a famous tavern & tea-garden which stood in what is now Copenhagen Park, N7, from early 17th century until 1855. The name either comes from the King of Denmark who stayed i...
Place, Architecture, Commerce, Food & Drink, Politics & Administration, Denmark
Philip Noble Fawcett was born on 7 April 1863 in Dublin, Ireland, the younger child of Henry Fawcett (1835-1882) and Mary Maria Fawcett née Noble (1834-1906). On 1 May 1863 he was baptised in St. P...
Person, Armed Forces, Law, Politics & Administration, Ireland
District Surgeon in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1920-1931. Officer in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Suffragette. Born in Lewisham. As a child, she survived poliomyelitis and had to use crutches or a tricycle, modified as a wheelchair. She was active in the women's suffrage movement and founded th...
Prime Minister: 1979 - 1990. Born Grantham. MP for Finchley: 1959 - 1992. A Marmite politician of the highest order - her death was greeted with a rare mix of immoderate panegyrics and gleeful cele...
One of the longest running councillors in Camden, when he stood down in 2022 he was given the title Alderman. First elected in 1964 he served a total of 38 years in 2 stints. He attended the first ...
London unit which served in WW1. Their Wikipedia page show how the Battalion came into being on 1 April 1908 and how it was subsequently transformed. It is shown as the 13th Battalion (Kensingtons...
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