Born at Lossiemouth, on the Moray Firth, Scotland.
The first Labour Prime Minister: 1924, 1929-35. The first prime minister to give cabinet office to a woman (Margaret Bondfield).
Died on the liner Reina del Pacifico, bound for South America, following a game of deck quoits. After a public funeral in Westminster Abbey his ashes were taken to Lossiemouth and buried in the grave where his wife's Margaret's had been buried twenty-six years before.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Ramsay MacDonald
Bronze statue unveiled on 19 December 1914. Sculpted by Goulden to Ramsay's d...
Canon of Rochester. Elected Guardian and Chair of the Lewisham Union - Lewisham in 1894.
Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.
Schoolteacher. Headteacher at Peckham Emergency Central School, 1940 - 46, and the first head at Walworth's first comprehensive school, 1947 - 55, when she retired.  Founding member of the All En...
Person, Education, Emergency Services, Politics & Administration, Wales
Chairman of the GLC Historic Building Committee, 1977 - 1981. British Universities Film and Video Council have an 1979 audio file: "Interview with William Bell, Chairman of the Historic Building C...
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