Mayor of Hackney 1991-2.
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W. J. Bintcliffe
Corps Treasurer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1908-1914.
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Kevin McCarthy
USA House of Representatives Majority Whip in 2011. Born California.
Happy Mahlangu
Deputy Commissioner for South Africa in the UK in 1998. Our photo shows Mahangu with his wife in 2013. On the net he is best known for some ill-chosen comments on the democratisation of Swaziland w...
Lieutenant-General Charles Fleetwood
Fought on the anti-royalist side in the Civil War. In 1652 he married for the second time to Bridget, Cromwell's daughter and widow of Henry Ireton. That same year he was appointed Lord Deputy of I...
Humphrey Salwey
Supported the Parliamentary cause and sat in the House of Commons 1640-52. Buried Westminster Abbey. When Charles II was restored to the throne he ordered the disinterment of the bodies of Oliver ...
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Henry Hallam
Historian best known for his books on European history and English constitutional history.
Temple Bar
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Albert Edward Victor Bloyce
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Was killed serving in HM forces in WW1.
Barry Mason
Cycling activist. He was known for supporting community and environmental projects in Southwark. For a time he managed school building projects for Southwark Council, before becoming manager of Sur...
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