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	George Lansbury: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		George Lansbury (1859-1940) was a British Labour politician.
		Lansbury was a pacifist, and publicly disagreed with a TUC resolution (in September 1935) that Italian aggression against Abyssinia must be stopped if necessary by force.
		George Lansbury was the grandfather of both Angela Lansbury and Oliver Postgate.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ge/George-Lansbury.html (283 words)

	George Lansbury
		George Lansbury, the son of a railway contractor, was born in Haleworth, Suffolk, in 1859.
		Lansbury was now one of the leading figures in the Labour Party and in the 1910 General Election was elected as the MP for Bow and Bromley.
		Lansbury was especially critical of the Cat and Mouse Act and was ordered to leave the House of Commons after shaking his fist in the face of Herbert Asquith, the Prime Minister, and told him that he was "beneath contempt" because of his treatment of WSPU prisoners.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRlansbury.htm (2744 words)

	George Lansbury - LoveToKnow 1911
		"GEORGE LANSBURY (1859-), English Socialist, was born Feb. 21 1859, at Halesworth, Suffolk, where his father was engaged as a sub-contractor on the railway line between Ipswich and Yarmouth.
		Lansbury worked in the business of his father-in-law and was one of the first members of the Gas Workers' and General Labourers' Union - now the National Union of General Workers.
		Lansbury visited Russia in 1920 and was accorded an interview with Lenin.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /George_Lansbury (399 words)

	George Lansbury
		George Lansbury was born in Suffolk, the son of a railway construction employee who travelled from place to place before finally settling in London's East End when George was aged nine.
		Lansbury was also involved in local politics, serving a term as Mayor of Poplar, and in 1921 took a leading part in a revolt against levying rates from the poor of the borough effectively to subsidise the rich elsewhere.
		George Lansbury served as Chair of the No More War Movement, President of the War Resisters International and to the child refugees rescued from war-torn Spain and the coming holocaust in central Europe he was 'Grandfather George'.
	www.ppu.org.uk /learn/infodocs/people/pst_lansbury.html (662 words)

	George Lansbury biography .ms (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		George Lansbury (February 21, 1859 - May 7, 1940) was a British Labour politician, socialist, Christian pacifist, and newspaper editor.
		Lansbury was the one exception and became Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1931.
		Lansbury was a pacifist and found himself increasingly at odds with the official foreign policy of the party he was leading.
	george-lansbury.biography.ms.cob-web.org:8888 (721 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Travel Guide: London's East End - Poplar Rate Strike, 1921
		George Lansbury, a Christian, a Pacifist, former Liberal and as a socialist was elected Council leader and Mayor.
		Lansbury was the editor of the Daily Herald and had served a brief spell before the War as Labour MP for Bow and Bromley before resigning in November 1912 to fight the by-election under the banner of support for women's suffrage, an election he lost.
		George Lansbury was re-elected to Parliament in 1922 where he continued efforts to allieviate the conditions of the poor.
	www.britannia.com /travel/london/cockney/poplarstrike.html (1415 words)

	IALHI News Service: George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour
		George Lansbury (1859-1940) was one of Britain's socialist and Labour pioneers, a stalwart of the pantheon whose most prominent members included William Morris, Keir Hardie, Robert Hyndman, Ramsay MacDonald and Arthur Henderson.
		Lansbury remained devoted to the poor and unemployed of East London, especially the Poplar in which his Bow and Bromley constituency was located.
		Lansbury was too prickly and idiosyncratic, too independent really, for Labour's leaders, who passed him over when they formed the first Labour Government in 1924; but in 1929, MacDonald could not avoid appointing him to some office.
	www.iisg.nl /~ialhi/news/i0511_1.php (1513 words)

	Genealogy.com - Ancestors of Angela Lansbury: Fourth Generation
		Lansbury was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England 1856.
		James Lansbury was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England 1858.
		Ernest Lansbury was born in Sydenham, England 1863.
	www.genealogy.com /famousfolks/angelal/d0/i0000008.htm (94 words)

	George Lansbury and the origins of old labour. . - Reviews - book review Contemporary Review - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Lansbury left a large corpus of written work, mainly journalism, and Dr Shepherd quotes freely from this; it is a good thing when a biographer lets his subject speak for himself.
		Lansbury's ten-year editorship of the Daily Herald was, no doubt, important in keeping the one left-wing voice in national journalism alive; but he is not remembered for that as much as he is for his leadership of the Labour Party from 1931 to 1935.
		Lansbury was the M.P. for Bow and Bromley, elected in 1929 with a thumping majority: it is due to the women', he said.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1649_282/ai_104136706 (828 words)

	John Shepherd \| A Life on the Left : George Lansbury (1859—1940) : a Case Study in Recent Labour Biography \| ...
		A committed socialist and a party rebel, one of George Lansbury's greatest contribution to democratic politics in Britain — almost as gamekeeper turned poacher — was his spirited leadership of the 46 Opposition MPs at Westminster against the serried ranks of the 554 MPs supporting the National Government after the Labour nadir of 1931.
		Lansbury's extraordinary decision to resign his seat was not due to emotional fatigue, impetuosity or malevolent influence of the Pankhursts.
		Lansbury had been an implacable opponent of reductions in social service expenditure and as early as February 1931, had submitted alternative proposals based on work creation schemes, emigration and 'sacrifices all round' to offset the unavoidable rise in unemployment relief expenditure and foster trade.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lab/87/shepherd.html (9878 words)

	Biography of George Lansbury (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Lansbury was a pacifist, and publicly disagreed with a Trades Union Congress (TUC) resolution in September 1935 that Italian aggression against Abyssinia must be stopped, if necessary, by force.
		Heavily defeated in the vote, Lansbury resigned as leader, although at first the Labour Party were reluctant to accept this and tried to implore him to stay but he felt it would be impossible to lead a party when he was in disagreement with it on the major political issue of the day.
		Lansbury was chair of the No More War Movement, and president of the War Resisters International.
	biography-2.qardinalinfo.com.cob-web.org:8888 /l/Lansbury_George.html (558 words)

	Birthplace of Socialist George Lansbury - Sightseeing in England pictures on Worldisround
		He was born on Feb. 21 1859 in a toll keepers cottage on the Bramfield Road (at the Mells crossing) to George Lansbury and Mary Ann Ferris.
		George was baptised in Halesworth church on March 13 and his parents registered their abode as 'The Thoroughfare'.
		Lansbury was elected Chairman of The Labour Party in 1928.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/18364/text.html (844 words)

	George Lansbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Lansbury (February 21, 1859 – May 7, 1940) was a British politician, socialist, Christian pacifist, and newspaper editor.
		George Lansbury was the father of Daisy Lansbury and Edgar Lansbury; father-in-law of Belfast-born actress Moyna MacGill (Lansbury) and the Hon.
		Raymond Postgate; grandfather of Angela Lansbury, Bruce Lansbury, Edgar Lansbury and Oliver Postgate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Lansbury (1062 words)

	George Lansbury and rebel councillors of Poplar\|1Apr06\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		George Lansbury and the rebel councillors of Poplar
		Lansbury was well known as an advocate for the poor and the unemployed and a supporter of “direct action”, strikes, women’s suffrage, and Egyptian, Irish and Indian independence.
		George Lansbury and the Rebel Councillors of Poplar (£2) by Respect councillor Michael Lavalette, with a foreword by George Galloway MP, is available from Bookmarks, the socialist bookshop.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=8606 (899 words)

	Angela Lansbury Biography
		Angela Lansbury (born October 16, 1925) is a British-born American actress and the granddaughter of politician George Lansbury.
		Lansbury is an accomplished, award-winning stage actress, with her outstanding acting talent and singular singing voice earning her rave reviews from her very first musical outing, the short-lived 1964 Stephen Sondheim musical Anyone Can Whistle.
		Lansbury has the honour of batting 1.000 in her four Tony awards nominations for Best Lead Actress in a Musical, with those four wins.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Lansbury_Angela.html (375 words)

	Chapter Excerpt: Balancing Act by Martin Gottfried (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		If Lansbury was ever going to fulfill her lifelong dream of being a star, this self-effacing woman was going to have to glorify herself; this introverted woman was going to have to explode.
		George and Elizabeth found a tiny, four-room house in the borough of Bow, deep in the East End of London.
		George Lansbury served on the Poplar Borough Council for thirty-two years while his children were growing up and was eventually elected the borough's mayor.
	www.twbookmark.com /books/42/0316322253/chapter_excerpt413.html (6541 words)

	Daily Herald
		George Lansbury left and the experienced journalist, Hamilton Fyfe, became editor.
		George Lansbury, explained the importance of Muriel De La Warr to the survival of the Daily Herald.
		For George Lansbury then required help to build the paper up and, being a paper of the Left, it had a hard struggle to make good in a country where the newspaper industry was commercialized.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jherald.htm (1641 words)

	Lansbury's lessons for today, By Jeremy Corbyn MP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Lansbury was a heady mixture of devout Christian belief, marxist principles, a devotion to the east end and its poverty, an internationalist and a pacifist, never believing any good would come out of wars.
		Lansbury, only days out of the editor’s chair, founded Lansbury’s Weekly which became his voice in an age when few could afford a radio.
		George lived out his years in frenetic activity for peace travelling across Europe and the United States preaching pacifism and calling for a world conference on economic justice.
	www.poptel.org.uk /scgn/articles/0307/page10.htm (713 words)

	Official Website of A Royal Christmas - Christopher Plummer
		Instead, it was seventeen-year-old Angela who landed a seven-year contract at MGM after director George Cukor cast her as Nancy, the menacing maid, in "Gaslight." Her cunning performance won her a 1944 Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
		But Lansbury returned to New York in triumph in 1966 as "Mame." She played the role for two years on Broadway and later to sellout audiences in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
		Although Lansbury had acted in live dramas during "the golden age of television" in the 1950's in such shows as Robert Montgomery Presents and Lux Video Theatre, when she starred as Mrs.
	www.aroyalchristmas.com /2003/artists_angela_lansbury.html (1277 words)

	Stephen Timms MP - The Launch of the Christian Socialist Movement Archive
		George Lansbury died in 1940, so well before this archive starts, but his influence endures.
		The reason Bob Holman, himself a wonderful Christian Socialist, is such a big admirer of George Lansbury is for the consistency of his life and his message.
		And George Lansbury's very shrewd management of the publicity around that whole episode was part of the reason for his success.
	www.stephentimmsmp.org.uk /csarchive.htm (2084 words)

	Angela Lansbury - a Brief Biography (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Lansbury was born in London, the daughter of a British lumber merchant and a famous stage actress named Moyna Macgill, who was the toast of the London stage in the 1920s and 30s.
		Lansbury received a second Oscar nomination for her portrayal of 'Sybil Vane' in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1945).
		With the legendary Angela Lansbury cast as the voice of Marie, the character's design became the easiest one to develop.
	members.aol.com.cob-web.org:8888 /sherryberry88/angelabio.html (384 words)

	Broadway: The American Musical . Stars Over Broadway . Angela Lansbury \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Angela Lansbury's grandfather was George Lansbury, the legendary social reformer, and leader of the British Labour Party for a time during the '30s.
		In the '80s, Lansbury began to work more in television and created the part of the writer-cum-supersleuth, Jessica Fletcher, in the U.S. The program's long-term success resulted in her being rated as one of the highest-paid actresses in the world by the early '90s.
		SANTA CLAUS (1996), and was honored in "Angela Lansbury: A Celebration." The latter gala benefit was held in November 1996 at the Majestic Theater, the same house that launched her first musical, "Anyone Can Whistle." Paying tribute were Barbara Cook, George Hearn, Tyne Daly, and a host of other stars from theater and film.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/broadway/stars/lansbury_a.html (495 words)

	A Crusade For Peace: George Lansbury's Worldwide Trip for Peace, 1936-37
		After 1935, Lansbury was singularly driven in his pursuit of peace.
		In April and May of 1936, Lansbury went on a speaking tour in the United States, visiting 27 cities in six weeks, quite an accomplishment for a man of 75.
		Lansbury was one of many who were fooled by Hitler's act during 1937.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/british_history/7229/2 (469 words)

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		Angela Brigid Lansbury was born in London on October 16, 1925 to Irish actress Moyna MacGill and Edgar Lansbury, a member of the House of Commons and the son of George Lansbury, a member of Parliament who went on to be leader of the Labour Party in the 1930s.
		Gaslight was Lansbury's first film, and at the age of seventeen, she found herself playing a character older than her real age, which would happen so often that audiences constantly thought of her as an older woman.
		Due to the presence of a social worker on the set, a scene in which her character lights a cigarette had to be postponed until her eighteenth birthday, which co-star Ingrid Bergman and the cast and crew celebrated with a party.
	www.tcm.com /thismonth/article/?cid=138936 (1423 words)

	Pirates of Penzance Press Release
		Angela Lansbury was born in London on October 16, 1925, the daughter of an Irish actress, Moyna Macgill and Edgar Isaac Lansbury, timber merchant and mayor of Poplar in the East End of London.
		Her grandfather was the Right Honourable George Lansbury, a prominent pacifist and onetime leader of the British Labour Party; she had a great-uncle who was the actor, Robert B. Mantell.
		Lansbury became the epitome of the highstepping, prat falling ageless kook who firmly believed that "life is a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death!"
	www.ronstadt-linda.com /pirat4a.htm (1115 words)

	Lansbury, George - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
		George Lansbury: at the Heart of Old Labour.(Book Review)
		Angela Lansbury: solving Sunday night blues; veteran of stage and screen, victor over personal tragedy, she may have found the best role of her career on TV.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-lansbury.html (393 words)

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