John Richard Archer

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Politics and Leadership
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Early Black British mayor and a founding member of the Labour Party. Keir Hardie and Ramsay MacDonald are wellknown as the founding fathers of the Labour Party, but the part played by Liverpoolborn John Archer is not always remembered. John Richard Archer (1863-1932) was Mayor of Battersea in 1913 and one of Britain’s earliest BBlack mayors. John Archer was thought to be the first BBlack mayor in Britain until quite recently, but an even earlier candidate for that honour is Dr Allan Glaisyer Minns, Mayor of Thetford in Norfolk, elected in 1904.

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