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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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Papaspyrou Glykeris
Glykeris Papaspyrou Known as `Papas’ to all and sundry who visited the Fairlight Lodge Hotel, some four miles from the town of Hastings in Sussex, he was the owner of the hotel which was […]
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Padmore George
George Padmore George Padmore was born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse on June 28th 1903 in Arouca, Trinidad, then part of the British West Indies. His paternal great-grandfather was an Ashanti warrior who was taken […]
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Page Sidney
Sidney Page A life-long Communist, Sid Page taught English at Stonehill High School in Leicester for 25 years, having previously worked at Roundhill School. When he became President of NUT Mid-Leicestershire Association in […]
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Pollitt Brian
Brian Pollitt The son of Harry and Marjorie Pollitt (see separate entries), Brian Pollitt read economics at Cambridge. He was Chair of the University Communist Party branch from 1960-62 and again in 1968-69. He was […]
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Perkins Stella
Stella Perkins A close comrade of Norman Le Broqc (see separate entry) in the Jersey Communist Party during its heyday year, Stella was one of the Party’s leading activists. The group picture is of […]
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Papaioannou Ezekias
Ezekias Papaioannou Born on October 8th 1908 in the village of Kellaki, Limassol District, in Cyprus, Papaioannou worked as a miner, and then as a manual worker in the port of Piraeus. He […]
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Paul Cedar
Cedar Paul Cedar Paul was born Gertrude Mary Davenport, the daughter of the composer Francis William Davenport (1847-1925). She was also the grand-daughter of the composer George Alexander Macfarren. Educated at convent schools in […]