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Quinn John
John Quinn Then aged 44, Quinn was a leader of a section of the 1932 Hunger Marchers from Manchester, and as such was almost certainly a card-carrying Communist. He was sentenced at Brentford Police Court to two months' hard […]
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Nicholson Fergus
Fergus Nicholson Fergus George H M Nicolson was born in 1935 in Dumfries. He was a Glorney Cup chess competition champion as a Hyndland Senior Secondary School, Glasgow, school pupil at the age of only […]
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Finley Larry
Larry Finley Larry Finley was born in Liverpool on 12th July 1909, the son of Edward James Finley and Annie Finley (nee Batch). His parents had lived in Salford but his father emigrated to Canada […]
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Jepps Malcolm
Malcolm Jepps Born in August 1932, Jepps joined the YCL in February 1950. He studied at Stratford and St. Martin's Schools of Art until 1951 and after training began work as a commercial artist. […]
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Emery Harry
Harry Emery A foundation member of the Coventry Communist Party, he moved to Birmingham in 1922 and became secretary of the branch there. Emery was arrested that very year for the part he played in […]
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Ramsay David
Dave Ramsay Dave Ramsay was a pattern maker by trade and a member of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, then of the AEU. He was a member of the Socialist Labour Party in Leicester. An anti-war […]
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Riordan Jim
Jim Riordan James William Riordan was born on the 10th October 1936 and came from a working class family in Portsmouth. He attended the Southern Grammar School for Boys. When on a Russian studies degree […]
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Pegg Sid and Ray
Sid and Ray Pegg Sid was born as Sidney Christopher in 1919 and Ray as Raymond in 1928. (These dates are presumed from public records on the basis that the maiden name of the mother […]
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Middleton Olga
Olga Middleton Born in 1906, Olga Middleton joined the Party in 1936 and was an activist in the tailoring union, the NUTGW. In the post-1945 era, Olga Middleton was a Branch Secretary of the Finsbury […]