United States ambassador to Great Britain 1941-46. Born New York City. Succeeded the pro-appeasement ambassador, Joseph Kennedy, Winant was with Churchill when news arrived of the attack on Pearl Harbour. Married with children, he had an affair with Sarah, Winston Churchill's second daughter.
On the day his book 'Letter from Grosvenor Square' was published he died by suicide, shooting himself in the head, at his home in Concord, New Hampshire.
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John Gilbert Winant
John Gilbert Winant, 1889 - 1947, United States Ambassador, 1941 - 1946, live...
Winant House A tribute to Londoners courage; a reminder of two countries nev...
Hon. Sec. to George How Memorial Committee. The damaged memorial seems to have another word after "Maxwell" so it's possible that "Maxwell" is a given name and his surname is something like "Mead".
Rowson was the security manager at the Thames Barrier. He had worked at the site in Charlton, since 1994. Source: News Shopper.
Past speaker of Hackney and co-chair of the Britain and Israel Olympic Plaque Committee with Martin Sugarman.
Chairman of the Highways Sewers and Public Works Committee, St Pancras Vestry in the late 1800s.
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