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Edwards Eric W
Eric W Edwards Born on 23 April 1944 in Croydon to Communist parents, Eric was a longstanding member of the British Communist Party in both Surrey and the South Midlands districts, until he was expelled […]
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Cohen Eric
Eric Cohen Eric Cohen was born in 1912 to Jewish parents who came to Liverpool from Russia at the beginning of the century. After school he trained and became a chartered accountant but joined the […]
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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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Atkinson Eric
Eric Atkinson: Atkinson was born on March 26th 1928 in the small village of Uphall Station, West Lothian, Scotland. It was this harsh climate that shaped the young Eric’s worldview during the 30s and 40s, which […]
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Edney Eric
Eric Edney Born Eric Alfred Edney in Wooton Rivers, Pewsey on the 5th February 1907, the son of a farm labourer, he would always describe himself as a country boy from a village in […]
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Whalley Eric
Eric Whalley Born in 1914, the second son of Tom and Charlotte Whalley, at 31 George Street, Mansfield, Eric’s father was active in the Labour Party and his mother in the Co-operative movement. Eric began […]
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Browne Eric
Eric Browne On one day sometime around 1957, Frank Watters (see separate entry) was selling the Daily Worker outside Armthorpe pit gate; it could not have been a more inauspicious period. Yet it was Eric […]
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Batter Eric
Eric Batter Born in 1917, Batter was a Communist activist in Exeter until 1945. He then went to Plymouth, where he was associated with the Party’s `People’s Centre’ bookshop in Wimple Street. Later, he resided […]