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George Cunningham
Politician and Labour Party Commonwealth officer. In 1981, resigned from the Labour Party and sat as an independent Labour MP, ex-Labour defector to recently founded Social Democratic Party, June 1982.
Continue readingHugh Dalton
Dalton served in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition cabinet; after the Dunkirk evacuation he was Minister of Economic Warfare, and established the Special Operations Executive.
Continue readingArthur Davidson
Labour Party politician. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Called to the bar by Middle Temple in 1953, appointed a QC in 1978. Legal director of Associated Newspapers 1985-1991 and Mirror Group Newspapers 1991-1993.
Continue readingAlbert Emil Davies
During World War II, Davies undertook a lengthy speaking tour of North America, on behalf of the Ministry of Information. Honorary treasurer of Fabian Society from 1936 - 1947.
Continue readingErnest Davies
British journalist, author and Labour Party politician. Editor of The Clarion, a weekly socialist newspaper. Governor for the National Froebel Foundation. BBC North American Service Organiser.
Continue readingW. S. De Mattos
Socialist activist. Graduated in mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge. Founder of many local Fabian societies. Launched "red van" campaigns, groups of socialist lecturers toured rural areas, giving speeches from a van painted red.
Continue readingPercy Dearmer
English priest and liturgist best known as the author of The Parson's Handbook. Active in the burgeoning Alcuin Club. Instrumental in founding the Warham Guild. Canon of Westminster Abbey.
Continue readingCharles Delacourt-Smith
British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations 1950. In 1960, he was nominated a Justice of the Peace, assigned to the County of London.
Continue readingRobert Dell
British journalist and socialist activist. Joined the Fabian Society in 1889, and served on its executive from 1890. In 1918, Dell became the Paris correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, but he was expelled from the country, and moved to Geneva.
Continue readingJohn Denham
Labour Party politician and director of the English Labour Network. Professorial Fellow on English Identity and Politics at Southampton University. Chair and co-Founder of the Southern Policy Centre.
Continue readingJack Diamond
British Labour Party politician. Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1964, a cabinet position from 1968. In 1981 he left the Labour Party for the new Social Democratic Party. He led the SDP in the House of Lords from 1982 to 1988.
Continue readingF. Lawson Dodd
Fabian dentist and author. First proposed the establishment of the Fabian Summer Schools in 1907. Some of the students slept outside in the open air. In 1908 an additional house was rented. 2000 people attended in the first four years.
Continue readingBernard Donoughue
British Labour Party politician, academic, businessman and author. Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Reader at London School of Economics 1963–1974. Trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Member of Labour Friends of Israel.
Continue readingBarbara Drake
Trade unionist. Her 1920 book, Women in Trade Unions was an influential work produced by her under auspices of Labour Research Department / Fabian Women's Group. Member of the London County Council Education Committee from 1925.
Continue readingEvan Durbin
British economist and Labour Party politician. Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Economics, London School of Economics, 1930–1945. Personal Assistant to Clement Attlee, Deputy Prime Minister, 1942–1945.
Continue readingClement Edwards
Welsh lawyer, journalist, trade union activist and Liberal Party politician. Edwards expanded into political activity, including radical journalism, becoming labour editor of the London newspaper The Sun in 1893 and then The Echo in 1894.
Continue readingJohn Edwards
British university lecturer, trade union leader and Labour Party politician. President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and president of the Consultative Assembly 1955 - 1959 onwards.
Continue readingRobert Ensor
British writer, poet, journalist, liberal intellectual and historian. President of the Oxford Union in 1900. Leader writer for The Manchester Guardian 1902. Published a selection of writings of leading socialist theorists as Modern Socialism in 1903.
Continue readingJohn Greer Ervine
Irish biographer, novelist, critic, dramatist, and theatre manager. By the 1940s St John Ervine was Northern Ireland's leading writer but also a controversial figure with “a remarkable antipathy to southern Ireland".
Continue readingLetitia Fairfield
Doctor, a lawyer, a war-worker, and the first ever female Chief Medical Officer for London. Feminist and a Fabian, and during her later life became a convert to Roman Catholicism and a believer in witchcraft.
Continue readingHerman Finer
Romanian-born British political scientist and Fabian socialist. taught for many years at the University of Chicago. He was the eldest brother of Samuel Finer.
Continue readingEric Fletcher
Labour Party politician. Solicitor, specialising in international law. Deputy chairman of the Associated British Picture Corporation. Governor of Birkbeck College and the London School of Economics.
Continue readingMontague Fordham
English agriculturalist, historian, barrister and advocate of rural reform. He belonged to the Religious Society of Friends. Formed the Land Club Union in 1908 and established the Rural Reconstruction Association in 1926.
Continue readingHugh Franklin
Suffragist and politician. Born into wealthy Anglo-Jewish family, rejected both his religious and social upbringing to protest for women's suffrage. Joined the Labour Party in 1931 and became member of Labour Party National Executive Committee.
Continue readingDonald M Fraser
Scottish socialist activist. Joined the Independent Labour Party, serving as vice-chair of its Scottish area. Secretary of the 1936 Fabian Group, and organised a conference on socialism and non-manual workers. Joined the Common Wealth Party.
Continue readingArnold Freeman
British writer, philosopher, anthroposophist, adult educator, actor, director, Fabian Socialist, Labour Party candidate and co-founder of the anthroposophical magazine, The Golden Blade. Co-organiser of a conference that established Steiner-Waldorf education in the UK.
Continue readingHugh Gaitskell
British politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party from 1955 until his death in 1963, head of the Department of Political Economy at UCL, all was appointed Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in 1938.
Continue readingFrank Wallace Galton
English political writer and journalist who was secretary to Sidney and Beatrice Webb and later to the Fabian Society. In 1929, he was appointed to the Royal Commission on Transport.
Continue readingGerald Gardiner
British Labour politician, who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1964 to 1970. Chancellor of the Open University from 1973 to 1978. Lord Gardiner published the Minority Report in March 1972 as part of the Parker Report.
Continue readingEdward Garnett
English writer, critic and literary editor, who was instrumental in the publication of D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. Editor and reader for the London publishing houses of T. Fisher Unwin, Gerald Duckworth and Company, and then Jonathan Cape.
Continue readingH. J. Gillespie
British socialist activist, prominent in the women's suffrage movement. Joined the Fabian Society in 1911. Founder member of the United Suffragists. 1930's secretary of the Mining Association of Great Britain.
Continue readingVictor Gollancz
British publisher and humanitarian. His loyalties shifted between liberalism and communism, defining himself as a Christian socialist and internationalist. Used his publishing house chiefly to promote pacifist and socialist non-fiction, and also launched the Left Book Club.
Continue readingPatrick Gordon Walker
British Labour politician. Assistant Director of BBC's German Service working from Radio Luxembourg, travelling with the British forces. Chairman of the British Film Institute 1946 to 1948.
Continue readingAlban Gordon
Political activist. Founded the University of Birmingham Fabian Society. Founded the Wolverhampton Trades Counci, lecturer at the Working Men's College and the Fabian Society, and also for the National Health Insurance Commission.
Continue readingF. H. Gorle
Social democratic activist. Joined the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), and by 1910 was serving as its treasurer. Prominent in the Labour Church movement, serving a term as president of the Labour Church Union.
Continue readingHarley Granville-Barker
English actor, director, playwright, manager, critic, and theorist. Granville-Barker wrote The Voysey Inheritance. In America he lectured at Harvard and was also employed by British Information Services.
Continue readingHugh Gray
British Labour Party politician and lecturer at the University of London.
Continue readingFrederick Ernest Green
British farmer and political activist. Wrote widely on agricultural topics, publishing The Awakening of England in 1912, The Tyranny of the Countryside in 1913, and The History of the Agricultural Labourer: 1870-1920, in 1920.
Continue readingJim Griffiths
Welsh Labour Party politician, trade union leader and the first Secretary of State for Wales. One of the chief architects of the Welfare State introducing Family Allowances Act 1945, National Insurance Act 1946 and National Assistance and Industrial Injuries Act 1948.
Continue readingLeslie Haden-Guest
Author, journalist, doctor and Labour Party politician. Founder of the Anglo-French Committee of the Red Cross. Founded the Labour Party Commonwealth Group.
Continue readingGraeme Haldane
Scottish engineer. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and worked at the Cavendish Laboratory under Rutherford. He helped establish the National Grid. President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 1948.
Continue readingBasil Hall
British Labour Party activist and lifeboat sailor. Chair of the 1917 Club. Through the Fabian Society, Hall became active in the Labour Party.
Continue readingFred Hammill
British trade union activist, and a co-founder of the Independent Labour Party. Full-time organiser for the Fabian Society in Durham 1894. Member of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE).
Continue readingHenry Harben
Pioneer of industrial life assurance. Chairmam and leading member of the Hampstead vestry. President of the Prudential company 1907.
Continue readingHenry Devenish Harben
British barrister and Liberal Party politician who later joined the Labour Party. Supporter of women's suffrage. Harben had joined the Fabian Society, which published his pamphlet, "The Endowment of Motherhood".
Continue readingToby Harris
Labour Party politician in the House of Lords. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, reading Natural Sciences then Ecconomics. Chair of the Cambridge Fabians and Chair of the Cambridge University Labour Club, before becoming President of the Cambridge Union.
Continue readingRoy Hattersley
British Labour politician, author and journalist. Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. Hattersley supports a British republic, but took a seat in the House of Lords from 1997 to 2017.
Continue readingStewart Headlam
English Anglican priest who was involved in frequent controversy in the final decades of the nineteenth century. Pioneer and publicist of Christian socialism, on which he wrote a pamphlet for the Fabian Society, and a supporter of Georgism.
Continue readingDenis Healey
British Labour Party politician. Joined Communist Party in 1937. Agent for the Information Research Department (IRD), a secret branch of the UK Foreign Office dedicated to spreading weaponised disinformation, anti-communism, and pro-colonial propaganda.
Continue readingPolly Hill
British social anthropologist of West Africa, and an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Research assistant at the Fabian Society, publishing a book on British unemployment 1938. Honorary doctorate, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1996.
Continue readingRita Hinden
South African social democratic activist. Educated in Jewish culture and faith by her father. Family migrated to Palestine, the first South African Jews to do so. Active in the Labour Zionist movement. Founded the Fabian Colonial Bureau to research and campaign on anti-colonialism.
Continue readingSamuel George Hobson
Theorist of guild socialism. Founder member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and writer for the ILP newspaper, Labour Leader, and in 1900 was elected to the Fabian Society's executive. Member of the Bristol Socialist Society. Helped found the National Guilds League.
Continue readingJohn Horam
Member of three different political parties. Features writer for the Financial Times and The Economist, and a founder of CRU Group. First Chairman of the Circle Thirty Three Housing Association, now part of the Circle Group. Elected a Fellow Commoner of St Catharine's College 2010.
Continue readingJ. F. Horrabin
Socialist / Communist radical writer and cartoonist attempting to construct a socialist geography. 1 of 17 Labour MPs to sign the "Mosley Memorandum", drawn up by Oswald Mosley. Supported British Provisional Committee for Defence of Leon Trotsky. Co-founded Fabian Colonial Bureau.
Continue readingDouglas Houghton
British Labour politician. General Council of the Trades Union Congress from 1952 to 1960. Panel member of a BBC radio programme Can I help You? between 1941 and 1964. Connections with London Labour Party gave him Alderman of London County Council - the forerunner of Greater London Council.
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