Leading campaigner against the slave trade. A founding member of The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, in 1787, whose work was later taken over by the Anti-Slavery Society.
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Thomas Clarkson
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Buxton Memorial Fountain
Due to strong shadows it was only on our fourth visit that we managed to take...
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Bernie Grant
Politician. Born Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana). His family emigrated to England in 1963, where he worked as a railway clerk and telephonist before be...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, South America
1 memorial
Paul Robeson
Singer, actor (also athlete and civil rights activist). Born Princeton, New Jersey to a former slave, who educated himself to become a theologian and who had great expectations of his son, expectat...
Person, Cinema, Music / songs, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Theatre, USA
1 memorial
Lord Holland, Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland
Whig politician. Grandson of the first Baron, and nephew of Charles James Fox. Born Wiltshire and orphaned by the age of 5. Owned 401 slaves. Express Informer provides "‘By the unexpected death of...
1 memorial
Sir John Cass
Tory politician, slave trader and philanthropist. Date of birth unknown so we use his date of baptism, which took place at St Botolph, Aldgate. 1705 became a director of the Royal African Company w...
Person, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Race Issues
2 memorials
John Blanke
Trumpeter in the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII. He probably came to England as one of the African attendants of Catherine of Aragon in 1501, and is one of the earliest recorded black people in...
2 memorials
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William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Home Secretary 1830–1834. Prime Minister 1834 and 1835–1841. Born Melbourne House, Piccadilly, now the Albany. 1805 married Lady Caroline Ponsonby who in 1812 had a very public affair with Byron. ...
1 memorial
Edward McKnight Kauffer
Artist and designer. Born in Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana, USA. As an art student, he was sponsored by Professor Joseph McKnight, from whom he adopted his middle name. He moved to Paris whe...
1 memorial
Sir Thomas Bazley
One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851. First baronet. Manufacturer in cotton spinning industry and politician. Born Gilnow, hear Bolton, Lancashire. Died at his summer home, Riv...
1 memorial
Aldersgate
EC1, Aldersgate Street
The Corporation of the City of London Site of Aldersgate, demolished 1761
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