Politician. A survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima. He was mayor of the city from 1975 to 1991. Every year on the anniversary of the bombing, he made appeals to the world to ban nuclear weapons. In 1976 he protested about an air show in Texas, in which the US Air Force held an imitation of the atomic attack in the form of a mushroom cloud in the desert.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Takeshi Araki
We the citizens of Hiroshima ever mindful of this cruel experience clearly fo...
Vice-Chairman of the Shoreditch Housing Committee in 1949. Elected onto the LCC in 1949.
Camberwell Town Clerk in 1901. We found our man at Ratcliffe History: "Charles William TAGG. He was born 1860 in Camberwell, Surrey, England[2, 2]. He married Emily Isabel COOKE. They were married ...
Clerk of Works responsible for the construction of the Northern Outfall Sewer in 1862-3.
Army officer and civil servant. Trained as a teacher. Moved to London in 1924, and became Director of Education at the LCC. 1933 became Clerk to the LCC. He advocated the development of Bloomsbury ...
Churchwarden of St John the Baptist upon Walbrook in 1884. Given the shared surname we thought this might be the Reverend White's son, Edward, but he would have been only 11 in 1884 so it's not hi...
