Ron Bellamy Born in Sheffield in 1917, Ron Bellamy won scholarships to Bradford Grammar School and then to Queens College, Oxford, where he read Classical Greats from October 1936, although he switched to Politics, Philosophy […]
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 […]
Fred Beney Born in 1922, Fred joined the staff of Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) in 1952 as a collector/ canvasser in his native London, having been active in the South London […]
Max Bennett Max used to rise about 4am and serve breakfasts at his cafe in the Old Market in Wolverhampton (pictured) and after that spend the whole day in Communist activity. Max had inherited the cafe […]
Don and Dusty Bennett Don Bennett, born in 1907, was a leading member of the Walsall Communist Party branch who, together with his brother ‘Dusty’, born Gordon but always known by his nick-name, were born […]
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 […]
Mick Bennett Bennett was a precocious, yet senior, Young Communist League activist from his youth. He was subject to intense MI5 scrutiny from 1932, possibly for the rest of his life. This largely began as […]
Ernie Benson The outstanding long-term organiser of the Communist Party in the north during the 1930s to 1950s, in particular. Born in Leeds in 1906, in Ernie’s early days in Yorkshire, he found his first […]
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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