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Kingsford Jack
Jack Kingsford Kingsford was a Communist Party member in South East London. He wrote to the Daily Worker 21st November 1961 to complain about the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Russia, […]
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Jerrom George
George Jerrom An executive committee member of the National Graphical Association, Jerrom was associated with the Communist Party’s Print Advisory Committee for many years. In the early 1980s, he was a national officer […]
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Lawson Neil
LawsoNeiNeilNeilNeil Neil Lawson Born on April 8th 1907 (or 1908), Lawson was a member of the Communist Party member from about 1931, probably formally for a decade, possibly secretly or informally for another […]
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Roberts John (Jack Russia)
John Roberts (Jack Russia) Born on the 1st May 1899 in Penrhyndeudraeth, Caernarvonshire, the son of John Roberts senior, a miner, and Mary Jones, the daughter of a blacksmith from Harlech, Roberts was brought […]
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Kartun Derek
Derek Kartun Born Derek Isidor Kartun, in Margate on 9th August 1919, Kartun was the son of a Russian-French father and a Polish-English mother. He was born into the world of the cultured bourgeoisie, […]
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Jacks Digby
Digby Jacks Born 16th May 1945, Jacks was the son of a building surveyor. He grew up in Charlton, south-east London and read biology at King's College London. He then studied at the Institute of […]
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Picton Tom
Tom Picton Thomas Issac Picton was born in 1895 and became a miner in Treherbert, Rhonnda Fawr, South Wales. He was one-time amateur middle weight boxing champion of Wales. During the 1914-18 […]
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Thomas George Cllr
Councillor George Thomas A Treherbert trade union and political activist during the 1920s and 1930s. He was active in the Clerks Union and found himself persecuted in the clerical workers strike of 1920. A consequentially long […]
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Holbrook David
David K Holbrook Born 9th January 1923 in Norwich, Holbrook read English at Downing College, Cambridge in 1941, where he was a pupil of F. R. Leavis. Already a Communist Party member, he entered the […]