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Wright Peter
Peter Wright Peter Wright served in Yugoslavia during the Second World War with the partisans and spoke Serbo-Croat. In the post war period, he was part of the very significant group of Communist intellectuals […]
Month: August 2011
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Chenoweth Frank & June
Frank and June Chenoweth Born into a radical family, June grew up in Plymouth and as a young woman was very affected by the Spanish civil war. At the outbreak of the second world […]
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Adam Grace
Dr Grace Adam Born in 1898 in Scotland, Grace Adam was for many years a member of the Communist Party, probably from the 1930s. She lived at various addresses over the years […]
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Carter Trevor
Trevor Carter Trevor Clarence Carter was born on 9 October 1930 in Woodbrook, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, the eldest of Elene and Clarence Carter’s twelve children. Clarence, was a cabinet maker and Elene a housewife. Trevor Carter’s […]
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Bennett Erna
Erna Bennett Erna Bennett, born in Derry, Ireland, in 1925, was one of the early pioneers of genetic conservation. After active service in the Second World War in the Middle East and Greece, she returned to […]
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Birch Chris
Christopher Berkeley Peyton Birch was born in 1928 in St Kitts, which was then the British West Indies, the son of Norman Peyton Birch and Iris Berkeley King. St Kitts was the same small island where […]
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Bradshaw W L
W L Bradshaw Bradshaw was secretary of the Leicester Unemployed “Broad Committee” in 1934 and a member of the National Unemployed Workers Movement. He was a Communist Party candidate in local elections. Source: http://www.nednewitt.webspace.virginmedia.com/whoswho/ […]
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Brown Alan
Alan Brown Alan Brown was one of three East End of London brothers who put their talents at the disposal of the Morning Star and its predecessor the Daily Worker. His brothers were Frank (see […]
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Brown Nora & E R
Nora and E R Brown Brown was dismissed from Blackburn Grammar School, as he put it in `The New Leader’ of 23rd July 1926, “simply for being a Communist. A few months ago a […]
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Brown Sid (`Eccles’)
Sid Brown Sid was one of three Brown brothers who worked at the Morning Star. He shared his later ego of `Eccles’, the staff cartoonist for the paper and its predecessor, with his twin, […]