Born in New Amsterdam, British Guyana as Shridath Surendranath Ramphal and known as 'Sonny'. He served as Assistant Attorney General of the West Indies Federation from 1958 to 1962, Foreign Minister of Guyana from 1972 to 1975 and as the second Commonwealth Secretary-General from 1975 to 1990.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Shridath Ramphal
{On the large plaque with an image of protesters on a map of Africa:} Sharpev...
The London Borough of Greenwich was formed by the amalgamation of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich and part of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich to the east. It became a 'Royal' Borough on ...
Chief Executive of British Airways and then Chairman of Thames Water. Obituary at the Independent. The Independent of 4 May 1993 reported that his body was spotted 50 yards down river of Westminst...
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary and the ruler of the Soviet Union 1927-53. He served as both General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–52) and Cha...
Formed during WWII to organise the requisitioning of property for wartime use. In 1962 it was renamed the Ministry of Public Building and Works, and acquired the extra responsibility of monitoring ...
Chairman of Bow vestry in 1900. In this instance, 'vestry' refers to a committee for secular and church government for a parish which met in the vestry of the parish church. Our colleague Andrew B...
Sculptor and carver. Born Derbyshire. Worked with William Farmer. Died Hampshire. Information from Mapping Sculpture.
Town Clerk of the Royal Borough of Kensington, 1904 - 1916, at least. Kensington in the Great War by G. I. S. Inglis tells us that the Chambers Leetes lost their only son Captain W. J. H. Leete of...
Created at the Grand Hotel in Birmingham as the National Association of Journalists. Described on the Stead memorials as "journalists of many lands".
Born Vernon Erle (or Earl) George Busby. In 1914 he joined the Royal Engineers, and was posted to France with the British Expeditionary Force, where he was wounded at the Battle of Mons. Afterwards...
A corps of the British army. It was formed in response to the need for more effective use of machine guns on the Western Front in World War I. It had four branches (Infantry, Cavalry, Motor and Hea...
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