About Herbert Burrows
Lived 1845 – 1922 (aged 77). Herbert Burrows was a British politician.
Herbert Burrows (12 June 1845 – 14 December 1922) was a British socialist activist.
Early life Born in Redgrave, Suffolk, Burrows' father Amos was a former Chartist leader. the Rainbow Circle, the Theosophical Society, the International Arbitration and Peace Association and the International Arbitration League. Burrows served on the Humanitarian League's Executive Committee. He was a teetotaller, vegetarian, and lifelong pacifist. and again in Haggerston in 1910. He resigned from the SDF (then the Social Democratic Party) in 1911.
Death Afflicted by paralysis from 1917, Burrows died at his home in Highbury Park, London on 14 December 1922.
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British activist (1845-1922)
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Herbert Burrows was born on 12 June 1845 in Redgrave.
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