Born as Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn. Labour politician. Inherited a title in 1960 on his father's death, Viscount Stansgate. This forced him out of the House of Commons so he fought to have the law changed to enable him to renounce the title, which he managed in 1963. The term 'Bennite' came to mean someone who shared his radical left-wing views.
On his death his son Stephen, a scientist, inherited the Stansgate title.
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Tony Benn
See Davison's page for an explanation of this plaque. While still thinking a...
Thomas Rainsborough was buried in this churchyard on the 14th November 1648 a...
Former Labour leader of the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Shoreditch Vestry Clerk (1891–1899) and Town Clerk (1900–1911) and … communicator with Martians. Our colleague Andrew Behan found Robinson’s other life: between 1918 and 1933 he claimed to be rece...
The parish council for the town of Epping, established as a result of government reorganisation and the abolition of the Urban District Councils.
Baron Wilson of Rievaulx. Prime Minister 1964-70 and 1974-6.
Student of Trinity College of Music, killed in WW1.
Member of the Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall. We are not certain that the J. Pullen on the Town Hall plaque is the alderman and well-known butcher described below, bu...
Nathaniel Acton was a wealthy successful Suffolk landowner. British History Online describes the land he owned in and around Shoreditch, stretching into Hackney and Bethnal Green. The painting is b...
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