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Holdsworth Stephen
Stephen Holdsworth The son of an Anglican priest, Stephen had his first gay experiences in London in his mid-teens, but it was when he went to Edinburgh University, where he studied Divinity, that he formed […]
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Walton Roland
Roland Walton Born on the 21st January 1894, Roland V Walton was a member of Leicester Secular Society (a body founded in 1851), as early as 1912. A remarkable body, which is still going, Walton […]
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Webb Harry
Harry Webb The brother of Lily Webb (after marriage, she was called Ferguson – see separate entry in that name), Harry Webb was the representative of the Ashton Communist Unity Group at the Communist Unity […]
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Wynne family
The Wynne family The parents of the family, Annie Elsie Gorrie and Charles Henry Wynne (b1868), were Quakers. Their children – Charles, John, Arnold, and Margaret Wynne – were all active in the Leicester Communist […]
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Berg Leila
Leila Berg She was born Leila Goller on 12th November 1917 into a Jewish family in Salford, Greater Manchester. Her doctor father refused to speak to her as she was growing up simply because she […]
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Braithwaite Larry
Larry Braithwaite Born in County Durham in 1930, Larry Braithwaite grew up in Stainforth, South Yorkshire. He became an apprentice electrician in 1947 and joined the ETU whilst working in the construction industry in […]