Founded in 1884. states "The Fabian Society is the UK's only membership-based left of centre think tank" and provides the following:
"The Fabian Society was founded in 1884 as a socialist society committed to gradual rather than revolutionary social reform. The name comes from the Roman general Quintus Fabius, known as Cunctator from his strategy of delaying battle until the right moment. The Society's early members included George Bernard Shaw (later described by Lenin as 'a good man fallen among Fabians'), Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Emmeline Pankhurst and H G Wells, Edith Nesbit and Hubert Bland."
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Fabian Society
Greater London Council The site of 17 Osnaburgh Street where The Fabian Soci...
Well Hall Pleasaunce
Jenny Agutter who played Roberta 'Bobbie' Waterbury in the 1970 film of The R...
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Admiral, Sir Charles Adam, KCB
Naval officer.  Governor of Greenwich Hospital, July 1847 until his death.  Died at Greenwich. Â
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Richard Cobden
Political economist and Liberal MP. Born near Midhurst, Sussex, into a large and very poor family. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. Spoke repeatedly to Parliament against war with...
5 memorials
J. T. Johnson
Churchwarden at Mary Magdelene Church, Islington 1894.
1 memorial
Michael Mackintosh Foot
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Brigadier Andrew Henry Parker Bowles, OBE
Born into an elite horsey family, close to the royals. 1960 commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards and stayed in the mounted services for much of his military career, based at Hyde Park Barracks....
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