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Thomson John `Jocky’
John `Jocky’ Thomson Thomson worked as a miner in the Lothian coalfield his whole working life. He joined the Communist Party in the 1940s and was an inveterate seller of the Daily Worker and Morning […]
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Thomson Katharine
Katharine Thomson Katharine Fraser Stewart was born in Cambridge in 1906 to Jessie Graham Crum, a graduate of Newnham College and student of the archaeologist Jane Harrison who, referring to her degree, claimed that Jessie […]
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Thornton Rosa (Rust)
Rosa (Rust) Thornton Rosa was born on April 26th 1925, when her father, Bill Rust was leader of the Young Communist League. He named his daughter after the murdered German revolutionary, Rosa Luxembourg, but was […]
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Thornycroft Elizabeth (Crump)
Elizabeth Thornycroft (née Crump) Born in August 1918 at Cheltenham, Elizabeth Crump was educated at Bedale’s, as was her brother. This possibly arose since her father who, after being invalided out of World War One, […]
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Thornycroft Christopher Hamo
Christopher Hamo Thornycroft A prominent mechanical engineer, Thornycroft was born in Hampstead on February 18th 1915, and followed the same profession as his father, Oliver. Chris Thornycroft was educated at Bedales, the progressive co-educational […]
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Tippett Michael
Michael Tippett Famous composer, Sir Michael Tippett’s very short, and largely unknown, period of Communist Party membership was prompted by a hitch-hiking holiday through the depressed north of England during the 1930s. However, his […]
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Tivey Frank
Frank Tivey From at least the1940s, Frank Tivey was a very vociferous Communist Party member and a shop steward in the Electrical Trades Union in the Wolverhampton area. Source: information from Geoff Marple of […]
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Tocher John
John Tocher A convenor at A V Roe (now British Aerospace), Woodford, John Tocher was first Stockport AEU’s lay District President and then its full-time District Secretary. He was widely noted for his role in leading […]
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Todd Duncan
Duncan Todd Duncan Todd was both a devout Scottish Episcopalian and a respected long-standing Scottish Communist and saw no contradiction in his beliefs. A civil servant, he died aged 64, in 1987 in Kinlochleven, Argyll. […]
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Togwell Walter “Wally” Levi
Walter "Wally" Levi Togwell Togwell was born on 18th March 1913 in Lancing Street, Euston, London. He became a waiter and joined the Young Communist League (YCL) in the 1930s. On joining the International Brigade, […]