Allen, (Reginald) Clifford, Baron Allen of Hurtwood (1889–1939), politician and peace campaigner, was born at St Olave's, Slow Park, Newport, Monmouthshire, on 9 May 1889. As an adult he was always known as Clifford Allen, or by close friends as CA. He had a brother, ...
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Allen, (Reginald) Clifford, Baron Allen of Hurtwood (1889–1939), politician and peace campaigner
David Howell
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Allen, (Reginald) Clifford, Baron Allen of Hurtwood (1889–1939)
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(Reginald) Clifford Allen, Baron Allen of Hurtwood (1889–1939) by Elliott & Fry © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Cole [née Postgate], Dame Margaret Isabel (1893–1980), political activist and author
Marc Stears
Cole [née Postgate], Dame Margaret Isabel (1893–1980), political activist and author, was born in Cambridge on 6 May 1893, the eldest in the family of two daughters and four sons of John Percival Postgate (1853–1926), fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and later professor of Latin at the ...
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Cook, Ida [pseud. Mary Burchell] (1904–1986), author and campaigner for Jewish refugees
Rebecca A. Pope and Susan J. Leonardi
Cook, Ida [pseud. Mary Burchell] (1904–1986), author and campaigner for Jewish refugees, was born on 24 August 1904 at 37 Croft Avenue, Sunderland, the second of four children of William James Cook (1865–1959), surveyor of customs and excise, and his wife, Mary, ...
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Davies, David Richard (1889–1958), writer, political agitator, and minister of religion
Matthew Grimley
Davies, David Richard (1889–1958), writer, political agitator, and minister of religion, was born at Pontycymer, Glamorgan, on 19 February 1889, the son of Richard Davies and his wife, Hannah. He was the youngest of four children. His father had been a miner, but had broken his back in a colliery accident before ...
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Green, Joseph Frederick (1855–1932), peace campaigner and politician
Robert Gomme
Green, Joseph Frederick (1855–1932), peace campaigner and politician, was born on 5 July 1855 at 12A Myddelton Square, Clerkenwell, London, the son of Joseph Edwin Green JP (c.1830–c.1900), merchant and member of Lloyds, and his wife, Hannah Rosa, formerly How...
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Marshall, Catherine Elizabeth (1880–1961), suffragist and internationalist
Jo Vellacott
Marshall, Catherine Elizabeth (1880–1961), suffragist and internationalist, was born on 29 April 1880 at Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, the elder of two children of Francis E. Marshall (1847–1922), mathematics master at Harrow School, and his wife, Caroline, née Colbeck (d. 1927)...
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Nevinson, Henry Woodd (1856–1941), social activist and journalist
H. N. Brailsford
revised by Sinéad Agnew
Nevinson, Henry Woodd (1856–1941), social activist and journalist, was born at 5 South Fields Place, Leicester, on 11 October 1856, the second son of George Nevinson, a solicitor, and his wife, Maria Jane, née Woodd, who raised him in a strictly evangelical atmosphere. In 1872 he won a scholarship at ...
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Nevinson, Henry Woodd (1856–1941)
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Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856–1941) by Sir William Rothenstein, 1924 © Estate of Sir William Rothenstein / National Portrait Gallery, London
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Wintringham, Thomas Henry (1898–1949)
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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
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 ...
