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    Loughton, where she was a member of the Union Church. Muriel Lester was a daughter of Henry Lester, a Baptist businessman, president of the Essex Baptist...
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    back to the work of Doris and Muriel Lester, who had a nursery school in nearby Bruce Road. Their brother, Kingsley Lester, died aged 26 in 1914, leaving...
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    Hall, Muriel Lester, described these walks in her account of his 3 month stay with her Lester, Muriel (1932). "Entertaining Gandhi - Muriel Lester - Google...
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  • Verona Doris Lester (28 July 1886 – 14 February 1965) was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. She was the sister of Muriel Lester. Doris Lester was responsible...
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  • Muriel Lester and Anne Seesholtz, visited many world leaders, including Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Leon Blum and Franklin D Roosevelt. Muriel Lester...
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    holding out until November. In 1915, the Christian Socialists, Doris and Muriel Lester, founded the first Kingsley Hall, in Bromley-by-Bow. The centres were...
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    shared space. Muriel Lester Cooperative House was founded in 1940 as an all-women's cooperative house; in 2021, the previous members of Lester Cooperative...
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    Schreiner, Aletta Jacobs, Emmeline Pankhurst, Ida B. Wells, Käthe Kollwitz, Muriel Lester, Katharine Drexel, Helene Schweitzer, Marie Stopes, Vera Brittain, Ava...
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    article on Gandhi's love of football [1] Gandhi's host at Kinsley Hall, Muriel Lester, described these walks in her account of his 3 month stay with her "Entertaining...
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  • mural at the Children's House in Bow, founded by sisters Doris and Muriel Lester. Garnett also completed a book of drawings with commentary called Is...
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  • York City, hitchhiked across the United States, and joined his aunt Muriel Lester (a well-known English pacifist and friend of Mahatma Gandhi). They continued...
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    and the building was renamed the Muriel Lester Cooperative House, after British peace activist Muriel Lester. Lester Cooperative offered interracial and...
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  • along with the social activist Mary Hughes and the social reformer Muriel Lester, entered into voluntary poverty as an example of how society could be...
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  • protester Sidney Lens (1912–1986) – American anti-Vietnam war leader Muriel Lester (1885–1968) – British social reformer, pacifist and nonconformist; Ambassador...
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  • Comfort, Donald Soper, Michael Scott, MPs Leslie Hale and Emrys Hughes, Muriel Lester, Wilfred Wellock, and Esmé Wynne-Tyson. In 1959, a gift of £5,700 from...
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    one of the first full-time members of the Greenham Common peace camp Muriel Lester (1885–1968) – British social reformer, pacifist and nonconformist; Ambassador...
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    and actor (Life with Father, State of the Union, The Sound of Music) Muriel Lester, 84, British peace activist Two weeks after the Tet Offensive in the...
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  • 1997 Norman Kember (born 1931, US), biophysics professor and pacifist Muriel Lester (1883–1968, E), social activist and pacifist Elizabeth Lilburne (fl...
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    Hahn (awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), Joseph Kentenich, Muriel Lester, Thomas Merton, Georgios Papandreou, Amparo Poch y Gascón, Gabrielle...
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  • in 1930 she returned to school. At school in Pennsylvania, she met Muriel Lester and was invited to work for six months at Kingsley Hall in London. Serendipitously...
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  • created many of his most famous works there; Doris (1886-1965) and Muriel Lester (1882-1968), philanthropists and pacifist sisters who founded Kingsley...
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  • Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze (Germany), Pierre Ceresole (Switzerland), Muriel Lester (England), George Lansbury MP (former leader of the UK Labour Party)...
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  • Thomas, Oswald Garrison Villard, E. Stanley Jones, Walter P. Reuther and Muriel Lester. In 1947, FOR and the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE, which had...
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    for her Muriel Cigars commercials where she sang, "Let Muriel turn you on / That is my desire / Muriel lights a flame in me / Where there's Muriel smoke...
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  • father was the head teacher. He married Jane Ann Lester in 1883, who was a half sister of Muriel Lester. Memorandum on the age tables and rates of mortality...
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  • on the Titanic, in 1915 Mary moved to live with friends, Doris and Muriel Lester, in the buildings that were later to become Kingsley Hall, Bow. She...
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    Be a Slave by Julius Lester (1968) Zamani Goes to Market by Muriel Feelings (1970) Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book by Muriel Feelings (1971) Jambo...
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  • Inch/Gilmerton Party Candidate Votes % Labour P. Wilson 4,345 76.4 Conservative Muriel Lester 1,346 23.6 Majority 2,999 52.8 Labour hold...
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    from the original on 2 October 2015. Gandhi's host at Kinsley Hall, Muriel Lester, described these walks in her account of his 3 month stay with her "Entertaining...
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  • Sylvia Cecil replaced Muriel Barron during the run. It was directed by Jack Minster, with choreography by Frank Staff and Keith Lester. The musical is one...
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