FEW FAMOUS LONDONERS.
Mr "Walter Sharman, the new president of the London Teachers' Association, regrets the absence of Londoners from prominent positions. he is reported by the ••Pall'Mall Gazette'' to have said, "we Londoners have to get our* policemen and firemen from the country. Except Mr Will Crook? (since retired), all the Labour members of Parliament ' are countrymen. I cannot think of any leading who. is a Londoner by birth and training; nor of any great' preacher who boasts of his London birth. ,Our master journalists, and the men who own .the Pre3s. are not Lon-: doners. Our great novelists," our musicians, the controllers of pur big drapery establishments, all come from' outside "London. Why this dearth of noble during the last century there have been born in "London many men and women potentially jjreat. They did not develop; they were dwarfed. They lived as in a zoo, and not in the open country." • . - -'
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17126, 22 April 1921, Page 8
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154FEW FAMOUS LONDONERS. Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17126, 22 April 1921, Page 8
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