Priscilla Bright McLaren
Anti-slavery movement and women’s suffrage. Executive member of NUWSS. Priscilla Bright McLaren was an activist who served and linked the anti-slavery movement with the women's suffrage movement i...
Anti-slavery movement and women’s suffrage. Executive member of NUWSS. Priscilla Bright McLaren was an activist who served and linked the anti-slavery movement with the women's suffrage movement i...
Royal Engineer killed by an exploding bomb while assisting in the attempt to disarm it. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: Sapper Edward McLaren was born about 1918 in ...
Socialist propogandist and educationalist. Born at Throgg's Neck, Westchester county, New York. Both her parents were from Scotland, and the family returned there when her father died. She attended...
Born Aberdeen, Scotland. During the WW1 he was awarded the British and Victory medals, which he had himself designed. Died in hospital, Richmond, Surrey, following a mugging. Other London work: the...
Gained his VC, and lost his right arm, as a captain in the 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders in South Africa at the battle of Elandslaagte, during the Boer War. He died following a fall from his h...
Listed in the Parliamentary Army in 1642. Fought at Newbury and was probably mortally wounded at the Battle of Brandon (or Cheriton) Heath. Buried Westminster Abbey, 18 April 1644. According to Th...
Extra 5th Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above Bar ...
Housebuilder and politician. Born Edinburgh. Lord Mayor of London, D.L.LL.D. He is to the left in the 1965 picture, wearing the Lord Mayor's chain, where he is being installed as Honorary Commodore...
Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration, Property, Scotland
Merchant. Born in Dumfries. He grew up on his family's sugar plantation in Jamaica, and moved to London in 1779. He headed a group of powerful businessmen, who planned and built the West India Dock...
Political philosopher. Born at Northwater Bridge, Logie Pert, Forfarshire, Scotland. He was a founder of classical economics with David Ricardo. His 'History of British India' contains a complete d...