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Wilkins Maurice
Maurice Wilkins Wilkins was born in 1916 in New Zealand of parents from Dublin but came to England at the age of six to be educated. He won a scholarship to King Edward's […]
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Ferguson Maurice & Lily (Webb)
Maurice (Morris) and Lily Ferguson (née Webb) Lily Webb By her own account, Lily was born on the 13th of February 1897 (though her birth was only registered in early 1898) in Norton, then a […]
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Crighton Maurice
Maurice Crighton Maurice Crighton was born in 1928 in Lambeth, where his father worked at the Waterloo headquarters of the Southern Railway. The family moved to Hersham, and after passing the 11-plus exam, Maurice attended […]
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Levitas Maurice “Morry”
Maurice "Morry" Levitas (Moishe ben Hillel) Born February 1st 1917, died February 14th 2001 – Levitas was by then one of the last surviving Irish veterans who served with the International Brigade in […]
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Dobb Maurice
Maurice Herbert Dobb Born in London on September 3rd 1900, Dobb is best remembered as a Marxist economist. He was admitted to Pembroke College in 1919 as an exhibitioner to study history. However, after his […]
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Carpenter John `Miles’ (Maurice)
John `Miles’ (Maurice) Carpenter A working-class left-wing poet, who was educated at Birkbeck, Carpenter wrote for the Young Communist League cultural magazine, ‘Alive!’ In 1939-40. A friend of Edith Sitwell, he worked at Archer’s bookshop […]
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Godfrey Maurice
Maurice Godfrey For many years, Maurice Godfrey was a full time official of the staff and managerial union ASTMS (Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs), which later merged with the technical and supervisory union, […]
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Cornforth Maurice
Maurice Campbell Cornforth Born in 1909, Cornforth is principally remembered as philosopher. Initially, he was a follower of Wittgenstein but joined the Communist Party in the 1930s and produced many works in the Marxist tradition. He […]