Politician. Worked closely with Richard Cobden in the campaign for the repeal of the Corn Laws. As a Quaker he was opposed to inequalities between individuals and groups; as a member of a mill-owning family he was opposed to trade unions and social reform which affected factories. MP for Durham and then Birmingham. Died at the home he had built 50 years before, in Rochdale.
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John Bright
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Anti-Corn Law League
On this site in the years 1844-1846 were situated the London offices of the A...
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Douglas Alfred Barber
Church warden of St Mary Aldermary, 1989 - 2000. Andrew Behan has kindly provided the following research: Douglas Alfred Barber was born on 31 March 1928 in Romford, Essex, the youngest of the thr...
1 memorial
Councillor E. Winslow
Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1952.
1 memorial
Andrew Sweet
Deputy Chairman of the Highways Sewers and Public Works Committee, St Pancras Vestry in the late 1800s.
1 memorial
Morry Levy
Full name probably Maurice or Morris Levy. A former Hackney Borough councillor about whom we can discover nothing.Â
1 memorial
Charles Edward Fox
JP. Mayor of the Borough of Bethnal Green three times: 1901-2; 1906-7; 1909-11. Member of the Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall and opened it in 1910. We thank Andrew Be...
2 memorials
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