George Lansbury, the British Socialist, whose death was reported yesterday, was born in February' 1859, in Suffolk where his father was engaged on a railway contract. Apart from a year that he spent as a settler in Queensland Srith his, wile and young family he has lived the east of London where he built up a. busi ness as a timber merchant. In Poplar he held every local office—guardian, borough councillor, mayor and county councillor. He was the founder of the frst poor law Jabour colony 3 Laindon, Essex, and of the Hollesley Ba colony, and the children's home of the Poplar
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