Bradshaw had been a socialist since his youth and had joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in the early 1930s. In 1955, Bradshaw won the commission to design the Tomb of Karl Marx at his burial place in Highgate Cemetery. Bradshaw designed the whole of Marx's monument including the plinth and the calligraphy of the texts on the monument, but did not sign the finished work. The tomb was designated a Grade I listed monument in 1974.
Thomas Charles Sorby (1836-1924) was a British architect, who emigrated to Canada in 1883, where he mostly worked in Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia.
Thomas Charles Sorby was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, and studied architecture in London. He was a pupil of Charles Reeves, with whom he designed Salford County Court.
He emigrated to Canada in 1863
Mary Lightbody Gow was an English watercolour painter. She was the daughter of James Gow, who painted genre and historical subjects, and sister of artist Andrew Carrick Gow. She painted mostly figures and genre in watercolours, especially young girls.
Gwendolen Avril Coleridge-Taylor was an English pianist, conductor, and composer. She was the daughter of composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his wife Jessie.