Alderman, J.P. and Mayor of West Ham in November 1905.
records: Businessman and local politician. Born Canning Town, he was made a partner in the business founded by his father, which became John Byford & Son. They were lime, cement and brick merchants of Poplar. 1898 elected to West Ham Borough Council, becoming an alderman in 1901 and served as Mayor of West Ham 1904-5. Knighted in 1925.
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John Byford, junior
The composer of this plaque has been very mean with first names and initials.
Veteran of the printing trade union movement. Delegate to the founding conference of the Labour party in 1900 and Labour MP for Deptford for almost 30 years. President of the Trades Union Congress.
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...
Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1852-54.
Scientist and statesman.  Born Chaim Azriel Weizmann, at Motol, near Pinsk, Belorussia. (Modern day Belarus). He studied in Germany and Switzerland producing a number of patents on dyestuffs. In 19...
Person, Politics & Administration, Science, Germany, Israel/Palestine, Switzerland
President of the Chelsea Temperance Society in 1908.
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