The
politician Philip
Noel-Baker was born in London in 1889 and died there in 1982.
He was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Peace in 1959 and wrote the books "Disarmament"
and "The Arms Race".
In
1908 the pacifist (William)
Randall Cremer died in London. He had been the first Englishman
to win the Nobel
Prize for Peace in 1903. He was a trade unionist and founded the
Workmen's Peace Association.
The
politician Arthur
Henderson died in 1935 in London. He had won the Nobel
Prize for Peace in 1934. A proponent of disarmament he was president
of the World Disarmament Conference and was involved in the setting
up of the League of Nations in 1919 (a forerunner to the United Nations).
Arthur Henderson
The
politician (and half-brother of the Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain)
Austen Chamberlain died in London in 1937. He had shared the Nobel
Prize for Peace with Charles G. Dawes in 1925 for their negotiating
of the Locarno Pact.
Austen Chamberlain