Born Bermondsey as John Molesworth Thomas Dumphreys. Member of the Commissioners of the 1890 Bermondsey Library. Mayor of Bermondsey in 1907. A Conservative, he briefly replaced Dr Cooper as MP for Bermondsey in 1909-10.
Photo credit: Southwark Art Collection.
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John Dumphreys
This public library was erected 1890-1. Commissioners: A. Lafone, MP - Chairm...
Activist, author, researcher and lecturer. Wrote '40 Years of the Notting Hill Carnival'. "The People’s War Carnival Band was created by Michael and Keith La Rose, whose father, John, founded the ...
Person, Community / Clubs, Education, Politics & Administration, Race Issues
Following Claudia Jones’ indoor carnival, community activists working with the London Free School, Rhaune Laslett and her husband Jim, and Andre Shervington and his wife Barbara, organised a street...
Member of Hackney's Maternity and Child Welfare Committee in 1938, probably wife to Councillor, H. Gooch, on the same plaque.
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