1878 Hon. Secretary of the Stratford Martyrs Memorial Committee.
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J. W. Brooks
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Stratford Martyrs
The event on 27 June 1556 was a big draw: "These 11 men and 2 women were brou...
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John Rees
Political activist and writer. 2012 co-authored 'A People's History of London'.
Jeannie MacKay
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest. Given on the mural as ‘Jenny’.
John Sewell
Co-church warden of St Botolph Without Aldersgate in 1868.
Sir Mansfield Cumming
First Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6. Born as Mansfield George Smith. Began his career in the navy aged 13, but suffering severe sea-sickness he was retired in 1885, and married...
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