Politician. He was elected to the common council of the City of London, later becoming a deputy alderman and lieutenant of the City. He was elected to parliament for Rochester in 1906, losing the seat in the January 1910 general election, but regaining it in the election in December of the same year. Created Baron Rochester in 1931.
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Sir Ernest Lamb
{Beneath the 'bridge mark' of the Bridge House Estates and above the City of ...
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
Economist, politician and educational reformer. Born Salisbury. Blinded in a shooting accident as a young man. The first blind MP. As Postmaster General (1880-4) he developed the parcel post and in...
Person, Economist, Education, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare
Born Huntingdon. 1619 ordained as a clergyman. Became a preacher to the House of Commons and was an influential speaker and supported the Parliamentary cause. Died Ipswich and buried in Westminster...
The revolt grew out of the increasing severity of the poll taxes imposed on the people of England. The Kentish rebels led by Wat Tyler met with those from Essex at Blackheath. It was here that the ...
A barber/surgeon, who at the time of the murders lived in the cellar of the White Hart pub. He was later found guilty of poisoning his three wives for which he was hanged in Wandsworth Prison. Bor...
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