Edgar Lansbury (politician)
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Edgar Isaac Lansbury was a British Communist politician. His daughter was the actress Angela Lansbury.
Lansbury in 1924
Minnie Lansbury
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Minnie Lansbury was an English suffragette and the first female alderman on the first Labour-led council in the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, England. She died after contracting pneumonia while impr
Edgar Lansbury (politician)
…as a result of the Poplar Rates Rebellion, while, in 1924, he was elected as a substitute member of the CPGB's Central Committee. After his first wife Minnie Lansbury died in 1922, he married actress Moyna Macgill and the two moved to Regent's Park. From 1924 to 1925 he served as Mayor of Poplar, the country's second…
The Minnie Lansbury Memorial Clock, Bow Road, upon restoration in 2018