John Biggs
John Robert Biggs is a Labour Co-op politician who was the directly elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets 2015-22.
John Robert Biggs is a Labour Co-op politician who was the directly elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets 2015-22.
Minister Plenipotentiary for the King of France in Sweden.
Anti-apartheid activist. Born Stephen Bantu Biko in Ginsberg Township, in what is now the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. He was initially involved with the multiracial National Union of Sou...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, South Africa
Suffragette. Born in Lewisham. As a child, she survived poliomyelitis and had to use crutches or a tricycle, modified as a wheelchair. She was active in the women's suffrage movement and founded th...
Corps Treasurer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1908-1914.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Soldier and then member of parliament.
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
Lawyer and politician. Born Frederick Edwin Smith in Pilgrim Street, Birkenhead. Called to the bar in 1899 and entered parliament in 1906. He became Attorney-General and Lord Chancellor. Successful...
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
Mayor of West Ham, 1900 - 01. From Sludge G: "Born Worle, nr Weston-super-Mare, Somerset 1838, died West Ham May 16, 1917. In 1881, Plasterer employing 10 men, living at 1 Victoria Villas, Essex St...
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