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Mansfield John
John Mansfield John Mansfield was born 1920 in the Regents Park area of Camden Town, London. He was the son of a former World War One military and later railway policeman. John moved to Hayes […]
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White John
John White John White was born on the 5th May 1921 at the rural location of Crosslee, near Johnstone. On his father’s side his family were English, on his mother’s Scottish. And his mother’s […]
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Cornford John
John Cornford Rupert John Cornford 27th December 1915 and died on 28th December 1936 was an English poet and CPGB member. He was born in Cambridge and educated at Stowe School and Trinity College Cambridge. […]
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Huxstable John
John Huxstable Having joined the Electricians Trade Union “when a boy”, Huxstable had held many offices in the union before the anti-communist bans took effect. He was closely concerned with the dispute with the electricity […]
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Williams John Roose
John Roose Williams Communist, author and Welsh speaker, Williams contributed to the monthly Welsh journal `Heddiw' on the need to support Republican Spain and, as Communist Party District Organiser, he was also involved with journal […]
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Burnes John
John Burnes When he was 30, Communist, John Burnes romantically took up with Patricia Legg, the then 39-year old wife of Sir Thomas Legg. She had met Burnes in 1978, when they were both studying […]
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Morgan John and Mary
John and Mary Morgan Mary Morgan (nee Lucas), the sister of Alice Cousins (see separate entry for Alice Cousins), was married to John Morgan, who was the librarian at Marx House before the Second World […]
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Sutherland John
John Sutherland John Sutherland was elected as one of the Communist councillors for Bowhill on the Fife County Council in the 1930s. If Fife was a Communist stronghold, Bowhill was its beating heart. Sutherland’s election […]
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Mahon John
John Mahon John Mahon was born in Dublin in 1901, the son of John Lincoln Mahon, a comrade of both William Morris and Frederick Engels. The family soon moved to London, where they lived at […]