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
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Councillor R. White
The composer of this plaque has been very mean with first names and initials.
A member of the Executive Committee for the Great Exhibition 1851.Surveyor and land agent. Born Coulsdon, Surrey. Died Hove.
Born Huntingdon, the great-grandson of Richard Cromwell who was Thomas Cromwell's nephew. The picture source website also provides these words: "Following the traumatic upheavals of civil war and r...
Born Edinburgh, grandson of Sir John Sinclair. Caithness Landowner and 3rd Baronet. MP, 1870 - 1885, with a fascination for Mary Queen of Scots and a liking for theatrical gothic. The earliest born...
Second Lord Kensington. He served as member of parliament for Haverfordwest from 1802 to 1818. He was the instigator of the failed Kensington Canal. Constructed in 1828 it was replaced with rail tr...
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