Herbert Stanley Morrison was a British Labour politician, born in Lambeth the son of a police constable. The 1891 census shows the family was living at 240 Ferndale Road, north Brixton. Morrison had little in the way of formal education and left school at 14 to become an errand boy and later a shop assistant. […]
Francis Moore
Francis Moore was an astrologer, licensed physician and Whig partisan, who had an astrological practice in Lambeth, and later in Southwark. His Vox Stellarum, an Almanac for 1701 with astrological observations appeared in 1700. Old Moore’s Almanack long outlived its creator, and sold extremely well throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, and it still thrives […]
Thomas Hughes
Thomas Hughes, who was elected as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Lambeth in 1865, was the author of children’s books including Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857). Hughes was educated at Rugby and Oriel College, Oxford. He was called to the bar in 1848 and became a judge at Chester in 1882. He was a Christian […]
Kate Hoey
Kate Hoey (born Catharine Letitia Hoey on 21 June 1946) is the Labour Party Member of Parliament for Vauxhall since 1989, and previously served in the Blair government as Minister for Sport. She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and was educated at the Ulster College of Physical Education. She joined the International Marxist Group. […]