People
People associated with the area:
- Politicians
Members of Parliament, for Bethnal Green and Bow :
- Rushanara Ali, Labour (MP 2010-)
- George Galloway, Respect (MP 2005-2010)
- Oona King, Labour (MP 1997-2005)
Members of Parliament, for Poplar and Canning Town :
- Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour (MP 1997- )
- Science and Medicine
- Dr Hannah Billig (1901–1987) - a local doctor who became known as "The Angel of Cable Street". A blue plaque marks her home surgery at number 198, near Cannon Street Road.
- Sir William Henry Perkin (1838–1907) chemist who discovered aniline purple dye, mauveine, in a hut in the garden of his family's Cable Street home. A blue plaque marks the site, by the junction with King David Lane.
- Sports
- Jack 'Kid' Berg (1909–1991) - Lightweight Champion Boxer, born in Cable Street, by Noble Court
- Literary figures
Victorian Era:
- Oscar Wilde visited the opium dens off Cable Street, near Dellow Street
- Arthur Conan Doyle visited the opium dens as research for his detective character Sherlock Holmes.
Edwardian Era:
- Isaac Rosenburg (1890–1918), poet & painter, lived at 47 Cable Street from 1897 to 1900, when he attended St. Paul's School in Wellclose Square.
- People inspiring local street names
- Thomas Barnardo - Victorian philanthropist who established homes for destitute children
- Nicholas Hawksmoor - architect who designed the church of St George in the East
- Nathaniel Heckford - a young doctor who founded a local children's hospital
- Harriet Martineau - Victorian journalist and writer: populariser of political economy
- Daniel Solander - Swedish botanist who travelled with James Cook exploring the Pacific islands
- Emanuel Swedenborg - Swedish scientist, philosopher and mystic, in the Georgian era
Read more about this topic: Cable Street
Famous quotes containing the word people:
“The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.”
—Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846)
“...I have never known a “movement” in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various “uplifting” activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.”
—Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865–1932)
“...we shall never be the people we should and might be until we have learned that it is the first and most important business of a nation to protect its women, not by any puling sentimentality of queenship, chivalry or angelhood, but by making it possible for them to earn an honest living.”
—Katharine Pearson Woods (1853–1923)