Educationalist and writer. Born Cincinnati, Ohio. She came to Britain in 1948 to study at Oxford. There she met Tony Benn, who became her husband. An advocate of comprehensive education, she co-founded the Campaign for Comprehensive Education. Her writings include a biography of the Labour pioneer Keir Hardie. Died at Charing Cross Hospital.
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Caroline DeCamp Benn
Born Cincinnatti USA 1926, Caroline DeCamp Benn, author teacher and socialist...
Built on the site of Millbank Prison.
Councillor and former Mayor of the London Borough of Harrow. Albert Keith Toms was born on 1 April 1940 in Cwmbran, Monmouthshire, Wales, the son of Albert E. Toms (b.circa 1904) and Amy Winifred ...
Health visitor and educator. Born at Throggs Neck, Westchester county, New York. Both her parents were from Scotland, and the family returned there when her father died. She and her sister Margaret...
At Bloomsbury and St. Giles's: past and present; with historical and antiquarian notices of the vicinity, 1890Â we found: "BLOOMSBURY PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS. These schools, founded in the year 1705, were...
Professor of Land Use and Transport Studies and Dean of Architecture at Cambridge.  Born Chile.  Awarded an OBE in 2009.
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