He strongly supported the Poplar Rates Rebellion led by George Lansbury in 1921.

George Lansbury and Attlee were among the few surviving Labour MPs who had served in government.

Hitler's British guests were a mélange of aristocratic Germanophiles such as Lord Londonderry, professional pacifists such as George Lansbury and Lord Allen, retired politicians, ex-generals, fascists such as Admiral Barry Domvile and Sir Oswald Mosley, journalists such as Lord Lothian and G. Ward Price, academics such as the historian Philip Conwell-Evans, and various businessmen like the newspaper magnate Lord Rothermere and the merchant banker Lord Mount Temple.

* 1940 – George Lansbury, English politician and editor ( b. 1859 )

George Hearn and Dorothy Loudon later succeeded Cariou and Lansbury in the lead roles.

* Gaslight ( 1944 film ), directed by George Cukor, starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer and Angela Lansbury, based on the play

There was an exhibition about building research, town planning and architecture, the " Live architecture " exhibit of buildings, open spaces and streets in the Lansbury Estate, Poplar ( named after the former Labour Party leader George Lansbury.

The Metropolitan Borough of Poplar was the location, in 1921, of the Poplar Rates Rebellion, led by the Mayor, George Lansbury, who was later elected as leader of the Labour Party.

* Angela Lansbury, Hollywood actress, and granddaughter of George Lansbury

Her paternal grandfather was the Labour Party leader George Lansbury.

George Lansbury ( 1859-1940 ) was a British politician, socialist, Christian pacifist and newspaper editor.

George Lansbury was born 21 February 1859 in a tollhouse located between the towns of Lowestoft and Halesworth in Suffolk, England.

His father, George Lansbury, Sr., was a migrant laborer employed at the time for a contractor engaged in the construction of railroads throughout the eastern part of England.

This was a central issue in the Poplar Rates Rebellion led by George Lansbury and others in 1921.

In 1935 its non-pacifist wing persuaded its pacifist leader George Lansbury to resign, to be replaced by Clement Attlee, and in 1937 Ernest Bevin and Hugh Dalton persuaded the party to oppose appeasement.

In the 1920s she became a regular speaker on behalf of the League of Nations Union, but in June 1936 she was invited to speak at a peace rally in Dorchester, where she shared a platform with Dick Sheppard, George Lansbury, Laurence Housman and Donald Soper.

Those joining the SDF included William Morris, George Lansbury and Eleanor Marx.

Prominent figures such as Henry Hyde Champion, Ben Tillett, Jim Connell and George Lansbury, all left the SDF for the ILP.

It was led by George Lansbury, the previous year's Labour Mayor of Poplar, with the support of the Poplar Borough Council, most of whom were industrial workers.

George Lansbury would later go on to be the leader of the Labour Party.

* Noreen Branson, " Poplarism, 1919-1925: George Lansbury and the councillors ' revolt ", Lawrence and Wishart, 1979.

At the International Socialist Club, McKay met Shapurji Saklatvala, A. J. Cook, Guy Aldred, Jack Tanner, Arthur McManus, William Gallacher, Sylvia Pankhurst and George Lansbury.

He was convinced that George Orwell's 1984 was nearly all wrong as it applied to England, which was `` driving forward into uncharted waters '', with the danger of a new tyranny ahead.

Private George Gray Hunter of Pennsylvania wrote: `` I am well convinced in my own mind that had it not been for officers this war would have ended long ago ''.

On April 5, 1925, George Rappleyea, who worked as a local manager for the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company, happened to meet county superintendent of schools Walter White and local attorney Sue K. Hicks at Robinson's Drug Store and convinced them that the controversy of such a trial would give Dayton much needed publicity.

Bernstein was despondent, but Sondheim convinced his friend Hal Prince, who was in Boston overseeing the out-of-town tryout of the new George Abbott musical New Girl in Town, to read the script.

Freeman convinced Evans ' tutors, George Kitchen and John Richard Green, and they convinced the Regius professor, William Stubbs, that, in view of his special other knowledge and interests, and his father's " high standing in learned society ," Evans should not only be passed, but receive a first.

In 1917, solar astronomer George Ellery Hale convinced Millikan to begin spending several months each year at the Throop College of Technology, a small academic institution in Pasadena, California that Hale wished to transform into a major center for scientific research and education.

Schuyler reported his findings to the English and then convinced Major Anthony Brockholst, Samuel Bayard, Samuel Berry, Hendrick and David Mandeville, George Ryerson and John Mead to invest in the purchase of the land he referred to as the Pompton Valley.

He initially failed to sell civic leaders and the Calgary Industrial Exhibition on his plans, but with the assistance of local livestock agent H. C. McMullen, Weadick convinced businessmen Pat Burns, George Lane, A. J. MacLean, and A. E. Cross to put up $ 100, 000 to guarantee funding for the event.

Days after the 9 / 11 attacks, Ailes gave President George W. Bush political advice indicating that the American public would be patient as long as they were convinced that Bush was using the harshest measures possible.

Hazel and Nelson convinced group leader George Clinton to add Fulwood to the group, where he replaced drummer Harvey McGee.

Frankie Manning wanted to outdo Shorty George, so he convinced his partner Freda Washington, to flip over his back.

Hill convinced John S. Kennedy ( a New York City banker ), Norman Kittson ( Hill's friend and a wealthy fur trader ), Donald Smith ( an executive with the Hudson's Bay Company ), George Stephen ( Smith's cousin and president of the Bank of Montreal ), and others to invest $ 5. 5 million in purchasing the railroad.

The following year, having convinced King George III and his government of Carleton's faults, Burgoyne was given command of the British forces charged with gaining control of Lake Champlain and the Hudson River valley.

However, the quality of the score convinced producer Harold Prince to hire them for their first professional production, the George Abbott-directed musical Flora the Red Menace, based on Lester Atwell's novel Love is Just Around the Corner.

Unfortunately the press began a campaign supporting Kitchener on 21 May, and the popular feeling that this raised convinced Law, Lloyd George and Asquith that Kitchener could not be removed.

Sir George Grey. Difficulties with landing supplies on the harbourless coast, as well as the recognition that the land route to New Plymouth was both difficult and hostile, convinced Cameron that it would be prudent to abandon his advance and he returned to Patea, leaving several of the redoubts manned by the 57th Regiment.

The CBS talent raids broke up NBC's hit Sunday night, and Benny also convinced George Burns and Gracie Allen and Bing Crosby to join his move.

Two brothers figure quite often: George and Fred ( the brother who convinced Columbo to move to California from New York ).

* Elisha Perkins ( 1741 – 1799 ), a popular quack doctor whose magnetic therapy, " Perkins Tractors " ( made up of two steel and brass rods with points at the ends ) convinced even George Washington to buy a set.

When he announced the measure in the House of Commons ( 9 April ), he announced that Home Rule was also to be introduced in Ireland, although Wilson was convinced that the southern nationalists would never accept it if Ulster was given the “ safeguards ” promised by Lloyd George.

He was convinced that the war would ultimately be won in the west, causing and Lloyd George to complain ( 30 July 1918 ) that it was “ Wully Redivivus ”.

British Prime Minister David Lloyd George eventually relented, and convinced the reluctant Americans to accept the presence of separate Canadian, Indian, Australian, Newfoundland, New Zealand and South African delegations.

Instead Walpole made himself extremely useful to George II, who soon became convinced of his competence and retained him in his post.