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Wyncoll Peter
Peter Wyncoll Peter Harold Wyncoll (left speaking) was born on 24 May 1939 in Basford, Nottinghamshire. In his early teens he was precociously a member of the Young Socialists but soon joined the Communist Party, which […]
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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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Warner Sylvia Townsend
Sylvia Townsend Warner Born in 1893, Sylvia was the only child of one of Harrow School’s housemasters, the brilliant George Townsend Warner and his wife, Nora. An accomplished musician, only the outbreak of War in […]
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Weiss Rita
Rita Weiss Born on October 4th in 1921 into a Jewish family in the East End of London, Rita Weiss spent her whole life organising, nurturing, networking and encouraging. Through her many years as a teacher, […]
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Wayne Wolf
Wolf Wayne Wayne was brought up in a working class London household. Having studied history at university, he became an adult education lecturer later in life. Wolf served in the armed forces during […]
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Weddell Bob
Bob Weddell Bob Weddell, almost certainly born in 1913, was a leading member of Edinburgh Young Communist League (YCL) from when he joined in 1936. He was secretary of the Youth Food Ship Committee that […]
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Williams Gwyn Alf
Gwyn Alf Williams Born in Dowlais on 30th September 1925, Gwyn Alf (as he was known, to distinguish him from several other eminent Welshmen with similar names) saw himself as "a people's remembrancer", […]