Blease, (Walter) Lyon (1884–1963), barrister and civic activist, was born on 30 May 1884 at 5 Beech Street, Fairfield, Liverpool, the second son and second of three children of Walter Blease (c.1853–1940), chartered accountant, and his wife, Mary Cecilia (d...
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Blease, (Walter) Lyon (1884–1963), barrister and civic activist
Joyce Senders Pedersen
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Pankhurst, Richard Marsden (1835/6–1898), barrister and political activist
Ingleby Kernaghan
Pankhurst, Richard Marsden (1835/6–1898), barrister and political activist, was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, the second son and third of four children of Henry Francis Pankhurst (1808–1873), auctioneer, and his wife, Margaret, née Marsden (1803–1879). No exact date for his birth has been located, and census returns yield contradictory information about his age. About 1847 the family moved to ...
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Pritt, Denis Nowell (1887–1972), lawyer and political activist
Kevin Morgan
Pritt, Denis Nowell (1887–1972), lawyer and political activist, was born at Fern Bank, Greenhill Park, Harlesden, Middlesex, on 22 September 1887, the younger of two children of Harry Walter Pritt, metal merchant, and his wife, Mary Owen Wilson. Educated at Winchester College (1901–5), and ...
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Pritt, Denis Nowell (1887–1972)
Maker: Howard Coster
Denis Nowell Pritt (1887–1972) by Howard Coster, 1944 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Wilson, Paulette Marjorie (1956–2020), victim of injustice and migrant rights campaigner
Sarah Moorhouse
Wilson, Paulette Marjorie (1956–2020), victim of injustice and migrant rights campaigner, was born in Jamaica on 20 March 1956. In 1968, the year that the Conservative MP Enoch Powell delivered his infamous ‘rivers of blood’ speech in Birmingham, she was sent to live with her grandparents in ...
