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Gyani Sundar Singh Sagar was born in Ghalotian Kalan, Sialkot district, Punjab (now in Pakistan) on 3 June 1917. He was educated at the Scott Mission High School and later attended Punjab University in Amritsar, where he graduated with honours in…

Beryl May Dent was born on 10 May 1900 in Chippenham, Wiltshire, the eldest daughter of schoolteachers. The family moved to Warminster in 1909 when Beryl’s father was appointed Head Teacher of Warminster County School, and this was where Beryl was…

Mary Worthington (née McConnel) was born in Manchester on 13 August 1830. She was the eldest daughter of textile manufacturer, Henry McConnel and his wife Margaret Alexander (née Kennedy). The family lived at Cressbrook Hall, Derbyshire. Little is…

Charles Ewart was born in 1769, at Biddles Farm, near Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. He was the son of Peter and Mary (née Falconer). Little is known of Charles's early life until 1789, when he enlisted in the cavalry of the 2nd Royal North British Dragoons…

Edward Theophilus Nelson was born in Georgetown, Guyana, on 22 October 1874. He was the son of Philip Nelson, a builder. Edward was educated at St. Philip’s School in Demerara. He came to Britain from Guyana in 1898, to read law at St John’s…

Ernest Leonard Leeming MSc (Tech.), Assoc. M.Inst.C.E.,M.I.Mun.E., was born in Chorlton in 1889. He was the son of Frederick Leeming, a merchant’s clerk, and Margaret (née Rennie).

On the 1911 census form, Leeming’s occupation is shown as a…

Lilian Russell Leicester was born in Stretford on 27 May 1864. She was the eldest daughter of Frederick Leicester, a woollen salesman and Eliza (neé Shelmerdine), a teacher of dance and music.

The 1881 census indicates the family were living at…

Beatrice and Edith Clayton Pepper were sisters who played an active part in the militant suffrage campaign and the activities of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU).

They were born in Chorlton-on-Medlock, but lived at 2 Primrose Avenue,…

Lord Kitchener (real name Aldwyn Roberts) is widely known as the “Grandmaster” of calypso music, Trinidad’s native musical style. Also known by the names “Kitch” and the “Road King”, Lord Kitchener achieved international success and legendary status…

Edward Colquhoun Charlton was born on 15 June 1920 in Gateshead, County Durham. Edward moved to Stretford aged 5 attending St Hilda’s Church of England Primary School and Old Trafford Secondary Boy’s School.Edward enlisted in the Irish Guards,…