South African Prime Minister (1919-1924 and 1939-1948). Initially a vocal supportor of racial segregation, towards the end of his rule he was beginning to argue in favour of some integration. Involved in establishing the League of Nations. Born and died in South Africa.
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Jan Christian Smuts
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John James Baddeley
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894. Â The photo shows him as Mayor of London, 1921. 2022: Spitalfields Life has splendid post all about Baddeley and his work. Aged 14 he was appre...
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Oliver Cromwell
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...
8 memorials
Lilian Charity Say
Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1952. Lilian Charity Jacob was born on 9 January 1908, one of the nine children of James Henry Jacob (1874-1935) and Elizabeth Jacob née Lock (...
1 memorial
Richard Courtney Balding
Born Camberwell. Employed as an insurance company director. Edwin Richard, his father, was MD of United Friendly Insurance Company. A 1938 London Gazette refers to UF at 42 Southwark Bridge Road. H...
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Edgar A Bowring
There is much of interest in this man's life. Born the son of a career diplomat who served for a time as Governor of Hong Kong, his mother was poisoned with arsenic whilst in Hong Kong and died in ...
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