MP, Postmaster General, in 1886 - 91. One of the first British politicians to have his voice recorded for posterity, by Thomas Edison's British agent.
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Henry Cecil Raikes
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Henry Raikes keystone
Raikes was the Postmaster General who commissioned this building for the Gene...
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Henry Cecil Raikes
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Penny Post - 1890 jubilee
This stone was laid by the Right Honourable Henry Cecil Raikes, M. P., Her Ma...
Other Subjects
May Day demonstration in Hyde Park, 1890
Paste Tense describes why and how the 1st of May became the International Workers' Day, how the first such day, in 1890, was planned in the United Kingdom, and goes on to describe: "The main demons...
1 memorial
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister 1940 - 45 and 1951 - 55. Born Blenheim Palace, near Woodstock, Oxford, into an aristocratic family. His father was the son of the Duke of Marlborough, and his mother was born in Broo...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous
30 memorials
Sir Louis Stanley Johnson
Solicitor and Conservative Party politician. Member of Hackney Council. Mayor of Hackney 1914-19. MP for Walthamstow East 1918-24. Knighted 1920. Died by suicide with a gun to his head, at his hom...
1 memorial
B. Poulter, JP
Joint Vice Chairman and Ex officio Guardian of the Lewisham Union in 1894.
1 memorial
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