Robert Neale Menteth Bailey was born on 22 August 1882 in Coates, Gloucestershire, the son of Henry Bailey (1822-1889) and his second wife Christina Bailey née Thomson (1849-1896). His birth was re...
Author and political activist. Born China as Li Yaotang. Ba Jin was his pen name. Learnt and advocated Esperanto. Spent 1927-8 in France. Returned to Shanghai. From 1983 suffered with Parkinson's...
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
One of the managers of the 1873-75 changes at Aske’s Hospital.
Chairman, Highways and Public Works Committee
Engineer and politician. Born at Maple Ridge Farm in Trenton, Ontario. He came to London in 1878 and with his brothers, established a company specialising in machinery for the confectionery and bak...
Revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism.   Possibly the founder of anarchist theory in general.  Born Russia. Well-travelled: Germany, France, Japan, London, Sweden, Sw...
Born Camberwell. Employed as an insurance company director. Edwin Richard, his father, was MD of United Friendly Insurance Company. A 1938 London Gazette refers to UF at 42 Southwark Bridge Road. H...
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