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Gleason, Fred
Fred Gleason Fred Gleason was born in Liverpool and lived in the city his whole life, among other things, working as a painter and decorator for the city council. He proudly represented his co-workers as a […]
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Gunson, Madge
Madge Gunson was an ardent trade unionist, born in 1898. When she was 11 years’ old, her parents joined the British Socialist Party and Madge began attending the North West Ham Socialist Sunday School, “for […]
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Gurney, Ronald
Ronald Gurney Ronald Wilfred (or Wilfrid) Gurney was born in 1898 in Cheltenham. He became a theoretical physicist as a pupil of William Lawrence Bragg at the Victoria University of Manchester during the 1920s, where […]
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Gibson Les
Les Gibson Gibson was born in Fulham in September, 1913 and left school at 14, in 1927, and for the next seven years he prepared wild fowl in a department store, Barkers of Kensington, where […]
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Gilchrist Jane
Jane Gilchrist Jane Gilchrist was a lifelong campaigner for socialism, and for homeopathy on the NHS. She was born Jane Valentine on 22 April 1913, the 6th of 8 children in a moderately well off middle […]
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Goodwin Dennis
Dennis Goodwin Dennis Goodwin was born Dennis Charles Zihff, 1916 in Bethnal Green, London. (The name is more usually spelt `Ziff’ and is Hebrew for “wolf”.) His father, Phillip, born in Russia in 1878, was a […]
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Gower Eric
A brief biography of Eric Gower by Graham Stevenson additions and corrections welcomed: info@grahamstevenson.me.uk Eric Gower, who had been Secretary of Manchester City Labour Party, stood as Communist candidate for Parliament in a […]
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Garrett George
Garrett George Born in Seacombe on August 13th 1896, Garrett was, like many of the Merseyside-Irish, brought up a Catholic but unusually he was the son of a Catholic mother and Protestant father. His father, […]
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Garnett Jim
Jim Garnett Jim (James) Garnett was, according to his nephew, “more or less” a founder member of the Communist Party. Born in 1894, he became a major figure during the Lancashire cotton strikes of the […]
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