First President and first Prime Minister of Ghana. Born in the Gold Coast Colony, now Ghana. Birth date uncertain. As a young man he studied first in the USA and then London, at the LSE. While in London he met George Padmore. Returned to the Gold Coast in 1947 to take up a political role. As the leader of the government he declared Ghana an independent country and a member of the Commonwealth in March 1957. Died in a hospital in Bucharest, Romania.
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Kwame Nkrumah
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Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah, 1909 - 1972, first President of Ghana, lived here, 1945 - 1947...
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John Thomas Bedford
Chairman of Committee for letting the City lands of the Corporation of London when the monument to Temple Bar was erected in 1880. Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894 and a Deputy...
2 memorials
William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury
Born Reading. 1628 became Bishop of London. 1633 became Archbishop of Canterbury. Supported Charles I, opposed many of the church practices that had come in during Queen Elizabeth's reign and perse...
2 memorials
Alderman Bishop
Member of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee, West Ham, 1905.
1 memorial
Eleanor Rathbone
Politician and social reformer. Born Eleanor Florence Rathbone at 14 Prince's Gardens, according to the ODNB, our trusted source; others say Liverpool. She made an extensive study of the position o...
2 memorials
Peter Graham
On the Executive Committee for the 1851 Great Exhibition Memorial.
1 memorial
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Southbank Centre
Arts centre. Oversees the Hayward Gallery, the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Saison Poetry Library, and the Arts Council Collection.
2 memorials
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