Editor of The Times 1967-81. Also High Sheriff of Somerset in the late 1970s. Chairman of the Arts Council in the 1980s. Vice-Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors. In 1988 he became Baron Rees-Mogg of Hinton Blewettin in the County of Avon.
1962 married Gillian Shakespeare Morris, daughter of Thomas Morris, and went on to have 5 children, including the politicians: Jacob Rees-Mogg and Annunciata Rees-Mogg.
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William Rees-Mogg
Unveiled by William Rees-Mogg in June 2000. Frances's date of birth, 1779 (ac...
Nurse, journalist, broadcaster, novelist and 'agony aunt'. Born Claire Berenice Chetwynd in London. Her early life was marred by the cruelty of her parents who put her in a psychiatric hospital wh...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Medicine, TV & Radio, Canada
Born Trinidad. Moved to New York where she became a Communist. Caught up in the McCarthy trials she was imprisoned and then extradited to Britain in December 1955. Became a community organiser aft...
Person, Community / Clubs, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Caribbean Islands, USA
There are records of the Thames freezing over as far back as CE 250. The piers of old London Bridge were broad and close together, meaning that they could get easily blocked creating a dam which wo...
Physician, political theorist, scientist, radical journalist and politician from the French Revolution. Murdered in his bath by Charlotte Corday.
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Medicine, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, France, Switzerland
Publisher who was the first to be successful with books for children. Born Berkshire. Died at home in St Paul's Churchyard. In the absense of a picture of Newbery himself we are showing one of his...
This small area contain 4 memorials: a statue, a bench a well and a large plaque.
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