Atkinson, Mabel (1876–1958), feminist and socialist, was born on 22 May 1876 at Ridley Mill, Broomley, near Stocksfield, in rural Northumberland. She was the daughter of John Boland Atkinson, inspector of mines, and his wife, Jane, née Elliott (b. 1853), feminist and militant suffragette; she had four brothers and one sister. Her parents were, as she later said, progressive and sympathetic on female education and employment. As a young woman, however, she chafed against restrictive middle-class Victorian behaviour and dress; she considered the bicycle '...
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Atkinson, Mabel (1876–1958), feminist and socialist
Sue Innes
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Banks, Anthony Louis [Tony], Baron Stratford (1942–2006), politician
Jad Adams
Banks, Anthony Louis [Tony], Baron Stratford (1942–2006), politician, was born on 8 April 1942 at Jubilee Maternity Hospital, Belfast, the only son and elder child of Albert Herbert Banks, a sergeant in the Royal Army Service Corps, who before the Second World War had been a toolmaker, and his wife, ...
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Maker: David Mansell
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Anthony Louis Banks, Baron Stratford (1942–2006) by David Mansell, 2002 Camera Press, London
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Cox (née Leadbeater), Helen Joanne (Jo) (1974–2016)
Maker: unknown
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Jo Cox (1974–2016), by unknown photographer, 2016
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Cox [née Leadbeater], Helen Joanne (Jo) (1974–2016), politician
Alex May
Cox [née Leadbeater], Helen Joanne (Jo) (1974–2016), politician, was born on 22 June 1974 at Staincliffe General Hospital, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, the daughter of Gordon Leadbeater, industrial chemist and cosmetics production manager, and his wife, Jean, née Smith, a school secretary. Both parents were born in ...
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Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes (1862–1932), scholar and advocate of a league of nations
D. E. Martin
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes (1862–1932), scholar and advocate of a league of nations, was born on 6 August 1862 at Langham Chambers, near Oxford Circus, London, the third of the five children of Lowes Cato Dickinson (1819–1908) and his wife, Margaret Ellen (d...
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Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes (1862–1932)
Maker: Roger Fry
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Duff [née Eames], Margaret Doreen [Peggy] (1910–1981), political activist
Sybil Oldfield
Duff [née Eames], Margaret Doreen [Peggy] (1910–1981), political activist, was born at 51 Wolseley Gardens, Chiswick, Middlesex, on 8 February 1910, the elder daughter and middle child of Frank Eames, stockbrokers' clerk, organist, and later secretary of the Incorporated Society of Musicians...
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Duff, Margaret Doreen [Peggy] (1910–1981)
Maker: Chris Ware
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Durant, Henry William (1902–1982), opinion pollster and market researcher
Mark Roodhouse
Durant, Henry William (1902–1982), opinion pollster and market researcher, was born at 42 Drummond Road, Bermondsey, London, on 23 October 1902, the first son and second of the five children of Henry William Durant (1870–1913), general warehouseman and later a foreman in a grain mill, and his wife, ...
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Haldane, Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane (1856–1928)
Maker: Lafayette
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Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane (1856–1928) by Lafayette, 1906 V&A Images, The Victoria and Albert Museum
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Haldane, Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane (1856–1928), politician, educationist, and lord chancellor
H. C. G. Matthew
Haldane, Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane (1856–1928), politician, educationist, and lord chancellor, was born at 17 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, on 30 July 1856. He was the second son (but first surviving infancy) of Robert Haldane (1805–1877), writer to the signet and a Baptist, and his second wife, ...
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Jones, Arthur Creech (1891–1964)
Maker: Bassano
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Jones, Arthur Creech (1891–1964), politician
Patricia M. Pugh
Jones, Arthur Creech (1891–1964), politician, was born at 11 Arthur Street, Redfield, St George, Bristol, on 15 May 1891, the second of the three sons of Joseph Jones, journeyman lithographic printer, and his wife, Rosina Sweet. Until 1905 he attended Whitehall Boys' School...
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Jones, William Armand Thomas [Tristan] Garel-, Baron Garel-Jones (1941–2020), politician
Mark Garnett
Jones, William Armand Thomas [Tristan] Garel-, Baron Garel-Jones (1941–2020), politician, was born on 28 February 1941 at the general hospital in Gorseinon, near Swansea, the elder son of Bernard Garel-Jones (1916–1984) and his wife (Sarah) Meriel, née Williams (...
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Lakeman, Enid (1903–1995), political reformer
E. M. Syddique
Lakeman, Enid (1903–1995), political reformer, was born on 28 November 1903 at Broadview, Hadlow, near Tonbridge, Kent, the only child of Horace Bradlaugh Lakeman (1874–1962), an excise officer, and Evereld Simpson (1867–1950), youngest daughter of John Harwood Simpson and his wife, Jane Ann...
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Meynell [née Kilroy], Dame Alix Hester Marie, Lady Meynell (1903–1999), civil servant
Arthur Green
Meynell [née Kilroy], Dame Alix Hester Marie, Lady Meynell (1903–1999), civil servant, was born at Felixstowe, The Park, Nottingham, on 2 February 1903, the second daughter and second child in the family of four daughters and one son of Lancelot Kilroy (...
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Maker: Walter Bird
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Plowman, Mark [Max] (1883–1941), pacifist and writer
Richard A. Storey
Plowman, Mark [Max] (1883–1941), pacifist and writer, was born on 1 September 1883 at Northumberland Park, Tottenham, the fourth son of Mark Plowman (d. 1929), brickworks owner, and his wife, Anna Maria, née Hunt. He was educated at 'various inferior private schools...
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Rackham [née Tabor], Clara Dorothea (1875–1966), suffragist and political activist
Brian Harrison
Rackham [née Tabor], Clara Dorothea (1875–1966), suffragist and political activist, was born at 44 Lansdowne Road, Notting Hill, London, on 3 December 1875, the fifth and youngest child and second daughter of Henry Samuel Tabor, a nervous, pessimistic, and shy member of a Congregationalist and public-spirited farming family long settled in the ...
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