Lawyer and co-founder of Rotary International. Born in Racine, Wisconsin. He started practising law in 1896 in Chicago. He began to consider the benefits of the formation of a social organisation for local professionals, and In 1905, started the first rotary club with three other local businessmen.
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Paul Percy Harris
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Co-funder of the Reagan statue; trustee of the Heritage Foundation, an American think-tank.
Second son of Simon in the parish of St John Clerkenwell. Active in 1714.
Caretaker of John Kidd and Co, 419 Old Ford Road, Poplar. George Frederick Richards was born on 4 April 1876 in Bethnal Green, the son of Samuel Richards and Mary Ann Harvey Richards, née Degville...
A parishioner or member of the congregation of St Matthias, N16, who died in WW1.
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