Politician. Worked closely with Richard Cobden in the campaign for the repeal of the Corn Laws. As a Quaker he was opposed to inequalities between individuals and groups; as a member of a mill-owning family he was opposed to trade unions and social reform which affected factories. MP for Durham and then Birmingham. Died at the home he had built 50 years before, in Rochdale.
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John Bright
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Anti-Corn Law League
On this site in the years 1844-1846 were situated the London offices of the A...
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John Mixer
Co-churchwarden at Christ Church, Newgate Street in 1888.
0 memorials
C. Alan Palmer
Corps Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1887-1895, 1915-1921. Serving Brother in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
1 memorial
W. Hawes, Esq.
One of the managers of the 1873-75 changes at Aske’s Hospital. Probably William, the brother or son of Benjamin Hawes.
1 memorial
Councillor J. Samuels
Chairman of the Shoreditch Housing Committee in 1940. From Tower Block: "Aggressive site-acquisition underpinned London's most forceful borough housing drive: that of Shoreditch MBC. This authorit...
1 memorial
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Hetty King
SW19, Palmerston Road, 17
Music hall artiste Hetty King (1883 - 1972) lived here. The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
J. T. Scholes
Either lost his life, or gave distinguished service to the London Fire Brigade, and was buried in the Highgate Cemetery plot between 1884 and 1955.
1 memorial
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