Chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. Invented dynamite, first demonstrating it in 1867 in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey. An inadvertently premature obituary, "The merchant of death is dead", prompted Nobel, with no wife or children, to leave his wealth to fund annual prizes for eminence in five fields, one of which is Peace.
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Alfred Nobel
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Eric Benfield, FRSA
Eric Benfield was born on 9 June 1902 in Swanage, Dorset, the third of the four children of Charles Benfield (1866-1936) and Adelaide Benfield née Smith (1868-1943). His birth was registered in the...
1 memorial
Sylvia Pankhurst
Born in Manchester as Estelle Sylvia, daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst. Â Trained and initially worked as an artist. Worked with George Lansbury in the East End. 1924 Sylvia moved from the East End of...
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Agnes Maude Royden
Settlement work in Liverpool then London, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, edited Common Cause, Church League for Women’s Suffrage, preacher, pacifist, later campaigned for ordination ...
1 memorial
60 years of peace between Britain and Germany
"... sixty years of peace between the peoples of Britain and Germany" in 2005, i.e. since the end of WW2. Another memorial commemorates "50 years of peace".
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