Born at Lossiemouth, on the Moray Firth, Scotland.
The first Labour Prime Minister: 1924, 1929-35. The first prime minister to give cabinet office to a woman (Margaret Bondfield).
Died on the liner Reina del Pacifico, bound for South America, following a game of deck quoits. After a public funeral in Westminster Abbey his ashes were taken to Lossiemouth and buried in the grave where his wife's Margaret's had been buried twenty-six years before.
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Ramsay MacDonald
Bronze statue unveiled on 19 December 1914. Sculpted by Goulden to Ramsay's d...
Born near Stockholm. Worked for an import-export company owned by a Jewish Hungarian. Travelling frequently to Hungary, he learned Hungarian and become joint owner of the company. In spring 1944 th...
Person, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Social Welfare, Hungary, Sweden
The management of the College sounds complicated. For 1882 Wikipedia has "Two Boards of Governors came into being. Both Dulwich College and Alleyn's School were to be managed by the college Governo...
Member of the Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall. Describing the Bethnal Green councillors at this time, British History gives: "Some later called themselves Liberals, am...
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