Member of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee, West Ham.
Our image comes from captioned 'First West Ham Borough Council, 1886-7'. This 'Councillor R. White' is probably our man.
in a piece about West Ham includes the text: "These men are supporting Alderman White, a Liberal Passive-Resister, who is a candidate at the forthcoming municipal elections, because, forsooth, “he is in sympathy with Labour.”
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Councillor R. White
The composer of this plaque has been very mean with first names and initials.
Mayor of Wandsworth 1994. From our Picture source, 2015: "one of the borough's longest serving councillors, has been awarded an MBE".
Clerk for the Haberdashers Company in 1826-8, at least.
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Former politician and author. Member of Parliament for Sunderland South from 1987 to 2010. He led the campaign that resulted in the release of the 'Birmingham Six', who had been falsely convicted o...
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