Born on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent in 1808 to slave parents. Born with vitiligo, also known as piebaldism he was, as a baby, put on show in the capital, Kingstown. Aged 15 months he was taken to Bristol and sold to the travelling showman, John Richardson who took him around England's fairs displaying him for entertainment. George died aged four years and nine months.
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George Alexander Gratton
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St Marys Newington - Gratton
George Alexander Gratton was a Caribbean boy brought to England from the isla...
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Landsbergs boy scouts
"Toynbee Hall (Routledge Revivals): The First Hundred Years" 1984, Asa Briggs and Anne Macartney provides: "Already in the 1890s, there had been increasing interest in what would now be called yout...
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Marjorie Hewson
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Hamleys of London
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John Newbery
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Edward de Montjoie Rudolf
Born at 63 Pleasant Place, West Square, Lambeth. Aged 13 he became the family's sole wage-earner, as an office boy. From then on he was self-educated. Got a job as a civil servant and was a volunte...
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