Lawyer. Born in Wyndham Place, Bryanston Square, son of Benjamin Cohen and nephew of Moses Montefiore. Studied maths and became the first practising Jew to graduate from Cambridge. Admitted to Inner Temple in 1853 and became a QC in 1874. Was Treasurer of the Temple in 1894. MP in Southwark. Important active member of the London Jewish community. Died 26 Great Cumberland Place.
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Arthur Cohen
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Learie Constantine
Cricketer and politician. Born Learie Nicholas Constantine at Petit Valley, Diego Martin, near Maraval, Trinidad. As a cricketer, he toured England with the West Indies team in the 1920s and was ev...
Person, Law, Politics & Administration, Sport / Games, Caribbean Islands
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Luis L. Ramirez
Ramirez's divorced wife's lover was murdered in Texas in 1998. Ramirez was indicted for solicitation of capital murder. In 1999 he was sentenced to death and executed in 2005.
Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA
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Edward Arthur Last-Smith
Edward Arthur Last Smith was born on 22 March 1884 in Torquay, Devon, the second of the five children of Edward Last Smith (1856-1937) and Emily Phyllis Smith née Dixon (1863-1936). His father was ...
1 memorial
John Roland Phillips
Barrister at law. Involved in the reviving of the Society of Cymmrodorion in 1873. Advertised in The Welshman in 1875. Appointed first stipendiary magistrate at the West Ham court house in 1881. I...
1 memorial
Lieutenant Ralph Charles Fairbairn Cotton
Ralph Charles Fairbairn Cotton was born on 16 January 1883 in Sydenham, Kent (now Greater London), one of the three children of Stephen Fairbairn Cotton (c.1857-1929) and Carrie Henrietta Maria Cot...
War dead, WW1
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