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Vaughan Joe
Joe Vaughan Vaughan was born in East London in 1878 and educated at Elementary School. He first started work at eight years of age, after school hours and on Saturdays. Later he schooled for two […]
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Usher Nellie
Nellie Usher Born in 1882, Nellie was the eldest of four children and nine years old when her father died. Her widowed mother kept the family going by “cooking or cleaning, or anything she could […]
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Vickers Jon
Jon Vickers James Oswald Noel 'Jon' Vickers was born on April 6th 1916. Although always called Jon, or John, by colleagues he was `Mouse’ to his family and friends. He came from a privileged London background. […]
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Tanner Jack
Jack Tanner Born in 1889 in Whitstable, Tanner’s father was the sports manager at Alexandra Palace, so the family moved to London where the young Jack grew up. At the age of 14, he was […]
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Taylor Murdoch
Murdoch Taylor Taylor was first active in the Young Communist League from the 1930s and came from Kirkcaldy, Fife in Scotland. Reporting on the 11th YCL Conference of Scotland held in Glasgow in 1939, and […]
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Thornycroft Elizabeth (Crump)
Elizabeth Thornycroft (née Crump) Born in August 1918 at Cheltenham, Elizabeth Crump was educated at Bedale’s, as was her brother. This possibly arose since her father who, after being invalided out of World War One, […]
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Tippett Michael
Michael Tippett Famous composer, Sir Michael Tippett’s very short, and largely unknown, period of Communist Party membership was prompted by a hitch-hiking holiday through the depressed north of England during the 1930s. However, his […]
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Tivey Frank
Frank Tivey From at least the1940s, Frank Tivey was a very vociferous Communist Party member and a shop steward in the Electrical Trades Union in the Wolverhampton area. Source: information from Geoff Marple of […]
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Tudor-Hart Alex
Alex Tudor-Hart Dr. Alex Tudor Hart was a student at Cambridge where he was taught by, amongst others, John Maynard Keynes. A life-long Communist from that period, he worked as a GP in the Rhondda […]
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Tudor-Hart Edith (Suschitzky)
Edith Tudor-Hart Born Edith Suschitzky in Vienna in 1908, she grew up in radical Jewish circles. She was the daughter of an owner of a socialist bookshop, her younger brother being the celebrated cinematographer, Wolfgang […]