A group of political radicals during the Civil War and the interregnum. Its origins lie in discussions within the New Model Army concerning soldiers' individual rights. They promoted: law reform, religious toleration and free trade. They wanted the franchise extended, a written constitution and for the government to be answerable to the People rather than to the King or Parliament. They did not call themselves the Levellers, this was a term used by their opposition.
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Thomas Rainsborough
Thomas Rainsborough was buried in this churchyard on the 14th November 1648 a...
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Earl Waldegrave
Politician. President of the Committee for the erection of the Florence Nightingale Hospital in 1909.
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Eduardo Menem
Born Argentina. Brother of President Carlos Menem. He was President of the Senate 1989-99 and effectively deputy to his brother when there was no Vice-President in office.
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Albert Maurice Deane Robertson
Warden of the Carpenters Company in 1956.
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Lawrence Emlyn Douglas Bevan
Chairman of National Provident Institution in 1959. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Lawrence Emlyn Douglas Bevan C.B.E., was born on 7 January 1903 in Somerville, Fayette County, Tennessee, ...
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Rania Khan
Councillor in Hackney council, on the right of this picture. Born Tripoli. When elected, aged 23, she was the youngest councillor in the country.
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