Politician. A survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima. He was mayor of the city from 1975 to 1991. Every year on the anniversary of the bombing, he made appeals to the world to ban nuclear weapons. In 1976 he protested about an air show in Texas, in which the US Air Force held an imitation of the atomic attack in the form of a mushroom cloud in the desert.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Takeshi Araki
We the citizens of Hiroshima ever mindful of this cruel experience clearly fo...
Politician and statesman. Born Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Fürst Von Metternich-Winneburg-Beilstein in Coblenz. At the age of 28 he was Austrian Minister at Dresden, then Berlin and Paris...
Treasurer associated with St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1702.
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
English humanitarian who worked to improve medical care both in wartime and at home. Active member of the Red Cross from its foundation, and one of the founders of St John Ambulance Association. He...
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
On the committee of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919.
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