John Richards
Windrush Pioneer. Born Jamaica. Aged 19, he travelled to the US to work on Louisiana farms. In 1948 he emigrated on the Windrush to the UK. On arrival he was one of the 256 migrants housed in Claph...
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Alford Gardner
Windrush Pioneer. Alford Dalrymple Gardner was a Jamaican-born "Windrush generation" emigrant and co-founder of the first Caribbean cricket club in Britain. Served in the RAF in WW2. The Guardian,...
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Basil Watson, OJ, CD
Jamaican, USA-based sculptor from a family of artists: Barrington Watson, Watson's father, was an esteemed artist in his own right, his three sons are also artists, and Basil Watson's son, Kai, is ...
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Keith Taylor
Keith Taylor writer, designer, director of photography, award winning producer and director of many television programmes, including ‘Statues and Monuments’. He served as a Magistrate for 20 years ...
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Professor Steve Eichhorn
Stephen Eichhorn, born Manchester, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining. A co-opted member of the Windrush Co...
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Simon Frederick
Born London. Created the award winning series Black Is The New Black, for BBC2. Member of the Windrush Commemoration Committee. Sources: IMDB, Gov UK.
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Tim Campbell, MBE
Timothy Anthony Campbell MBE is a businessman best known as the winner of the first series of the British version of The Apprentice. Awarded the MBE for Enterprise Culture in the 2012 New Year’s Ho...
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Professor Geoff Thompson, MBE, FRSA, DL
Geoff Thompson MBE DL FRSA is a British karate fighter. He is the winner of multiple European Karate Championships and World Karate Championships medals. Thompson was appointed Member of the Order ...
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Rt. Rev. Rose Hudson-Wilkin, CD, MBE, Bishop of Dover
Rose Josephine Hudson-Wilkin CD MBE KHC is an Anglican prelate, who serves as Suffragan Bishop of Dover in the diocese of Canterbury – deputising for the archbishop – since 2019: she is the first b...
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Sir Ken Olisa, OBE, CStJ, FRSA, FBCS
Sir Kenneth Aphunezi Olisa is a businessman and philanthropist. The first black Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London. He founded and led the AIM-listed technology merchant bank Interregnum and now lea...
Person, Education, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Race Issues
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