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.
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Takeshi Araki
We the citizens of Hiroshima ever mindful of this cruel experience clearly fo...
MP, Speaker of the House of Commons for 9 years. Born Glasgow. His resignation was part of the fall-out of the 2009 expenses scandal. His Wikipedia page confirms that he died after a short illn...
Corps Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1887-1895, 1915-1921. Serving Brother in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was on the building committee for the Bostall Estate in 1900.
Frederick Woodward. Councillor, J.P. and Mayor of Ealing in 1937.
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
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