Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
William Sloman
Commemorated ati
Poplar Rate Rebels mural - 1
The mural refers to "30 councillors" but actually names only 29. The count o...
Other Subjects
Lord Ritchie of Dundee
Chairman of the Port of London Authority in 1935.
1 memorial
Julius Salter Elias, Viscount Southwood
'Fairlight' in Wood Lane, Highgate, was built in 1908 for Julius Elias. who was the head of the publishing firm, Odhams Press, and later became Viscount Southwood. There is a book by R.J Minney, 'V...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration
4 memorials
Councillor Leonard Pearl
Leonard Pearl was born on 6 August 1908 in Mile End, London, one of at least nine children of David Pearl (1886-1919) and Rachel Pearl née Solomon (1868-1934). In the 1911 census he is shown as liv...
1 memorial
Alderman Fred J. Read
Chairman Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall.
1 memorial
Francisco Ferrer
Catalan free-thinker and anarchist. Born near Barcelona. Executed for armed rebellion in Barcelona.
1 memorial
Previously viewed
1 memorial
The Bun House
E3, Devons Road, 75, The Widow's Son
The pub was established in 1848 and initially we assumed the widow was the innkeeper's wife. Then we found a 2013 article in the Romford...
Glenton Powell
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has researched this young man: Glenton Anthony Powell was born on 19 January 1965 and died, aged 16 years, on 25 January 1981 as a result of injuries sustained in a fir...
2 memorials
Marco Liberati
Marco Liberati was born on 14 January 1962 in Italy. He had come to England to visit his girlfriend, Mariella Santello, to celebrate her 21st birthday and died, aged 25 years, on 18 November 1987 i...
1 memorial
George Holyoake
Radical journalist, secularist and promoter of the Co-operative Movement. Born Birmingham as George Jacob Holyoake. He coined the term "secularism" in 1851 and "jingoism" in 1878. He edited a secul...
1 memorial
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