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Miller [née Haring], Millie (1922–1977), social worker and politician, was born at 9 Windsor Terrace, Hoxton, London, on 8 April 1922, the fourth of five children of Barney Haring (1881–1947), diamond polisher, and his wife, Sarah, née Zomerplaag (...

Thistlethwayte [née Bell], Laura Eliza Jane Seymour (1831?–1894), courtesan and lay preacher, was the daughter of Captain Robert H. Bell of Bellbrook, Glenavy, co. Antrim, and his second wife, Laura Jane Seymour, an illegitimate daughter of the third marquess of Hertford...

Wright, Sheila Rosemary Rivers (1925–2013), social worker and politician, was born in Cawnpore (now Kanpur), Uttar Pradesh, India, on 22 March 1925, the only child of Daniel Rivers Wright (1881–1937), police inspector general, and his second wife, Frances Grace, née...