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Month: January 2011
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Paul Cedar
Cedar Paul Cedar Paul was born Gertrude Mary Davenport, the daughter of the composer Francis William Davenport (1847-1925). She was also the grand-daughter of the composer George Alexander Macfarren. Educated at convent schools in […]
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Huffingley Ron & Beryl
Ron and Beryl Huffinley The Huffinley couple were long-term Communist activists in Yorkshire. Beryl Huffinley was a full-time Yorkshire Communist Party organiser for a period in the mid 1960s. Very active for years in […]
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Starr Mark
Mark Starr Starr was born on 27th April 1894, one of five children, in Shoscombe, Wellow, North East Somerset to William, a Free Methodist coal miner variously described in the census later as a hitcher and earlier […]
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Gibbons Charlie
Charlie Gibbons Born Charles Leonard Gibbons on November 23rd 1888, he was a protégé of Noah Ablett, co-author of `The Miners’ Next Step’. Gibbons was a member of the Unofficial Reform Committee and the […]
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Halverson Ron
Ron Halverson Halverson was an active member of the Amalgamated Union of Engineers (AEU) and a long-term Communist Party activist. The President of Hatfield & Welwyn Garden district committee of the AEU from […]
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Stevens Bernard
Bernard Stevens Born Bernard George Stevens in London on 2nd March 1916, Stevens studied English and Music at the University of Cambridge, where it is believed he first joined the Communist Party. During this […]
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Bellamy Joan
Joan Bellamy Born Joan Shaw she joined the Communist Party in or around 1945. In 1953, she married fellow-Communist, Ron Bellamy (see separate entry). During this period, Joan worked full-time for the Communist Party. She […]
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Giles Winifred
Winifred Giles Giles was a Communist journalist and the editor of the Women's Page in the Sunday Worker. Giles frequently used the political pen name of Florence Parker. She died very suddenly […]