Labour leader and politician. Born John Elliott Burns in Vauxhall. in 1889 he played a major part in the London dock strike. Entered parliament in 1892. Appointed president of the Board of Trade in 1914. Died in the Bolingbroke Hospital, Wandsworth.
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Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest, at which time she was 6 months pregnant. Nellie Frances Wilson was born on 23 November 1882 in Kilburn, the eldest of the four children ...
Swedish Ambassador in London, 1906-20.
Chairman of Committee for letting the City lands of the Corporation of London when the monument to Temple Bar was erected in 1880. Â Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894 and a Deputy...
We can find nothing about this but guess it is some offshoot of the Russian embassy.
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