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Grant, Ted [real name Isaac Blank] (1913–2006), political activist  

John Callaghan

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Published in print:
07 March 2013
Published online:
07 January 2010

Grant, Ted [real name Isaac Blank] (1913–2006), political activist, was born on 9 July 1913 in Germiston, South Africa, the son of Max Blank, a Russian Jewish immigrant, and his French wife. His parents divorced while he was still young, and his mother took in lodgers, including ...

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Lieberman, Aaron Samuel (1849?–1880), socialist activist  

Sharman Kadish

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23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Lieberman, Aaron Samuel (1849?–1880), socialist activist, was probably born in 1849 in Lunna in Grodno province, then part of the Russian empire, son of Eliezer Dov Lieberman, a scholar of the Jewish enlightenment (haskalah). The family moved to Białystok and thence to ...

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Wintringham, Thomas Henry (1898–1949)  

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
Thomas Henry Wintringham (1898–1949) by Haywood Magee, 1943 [during the Midlothian North by-election] Getty Images – Haywood Magee

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Wintringham, Thomas Henry [Tom] (1898–1949), socialist activist and military theorist  

Adrian Smith

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Wintringham, Thomas Henry [Tom] (1898–1949), socialist activist and military theorist, was born on 15 May 1898 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, the third child of John Fildes Wintringham (1866–1940), a solicitor, and his wife, Eliza Mapson Workman (1868–1937). Both his parents' families were nonconformist in religion and in politics, and Gladstonian Liberalism was to prove a lasting influence. Educated at ...