Dramatis personae
Lawn Road Flats’ residents
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Harold Montgomery Belgion |
Writer and journalist. |
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Phyllis Blewitt |
Wife of Trevor Blewitt. Translator of Stefan Zweig and Arthur Koestler from German to English. |
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Trevor Blewitt |
British broadcaster, links with CPGB, suspected Soviet sub-agent. |
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Charles Brasch |
New Zealand poet, worked at Bletchley Park. |
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Robert Braun |
Swiss national. Took over from Philip Harben as manager of the Isobar in March 1940. |
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Marcel Breuer |
Hungarian furniture designer. Member of the Bauhaus. |
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William Brown |
General Secretary, Civil Service Clerical Association; broadcaster. |
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Vere Gordon Childe |
Australian. Marxist pre-historian. |
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Agatha Christie |
Crime writer. |
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Wells Coates |
Canadian. Architect of the Lawn Road Flats. |
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S. Cooke |
Assistant to the secretary of Arthur Greenwood’s Cabinet Committee on Reconstruction. |
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L. W. Desbrow |
President Students’ Union LSE, lecturer. |
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Arnold Deutsch |
Austrian. Soviet spy ‘illegal’ lived in the Flats 1935–1938. Teodor Maly’s principal agent. |
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Hermann Deutsch |
Uncle to the Kuczynskis. Suspected Soviet agent. |
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Josefine Deutsch |
Married to Arnold Deutsch. Austrian. Communist, Soviet spy. |
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Lionel Elvin |
Principal in the finance division of the Air Ministry. |
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Charles Fenn |
Writer. CIA agent. |
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Maxwell Fry |
Architect. |
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Ralph Edward Gathorne-Hardy |
Writer. |
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Hans Goldschmidt |
German émigré. |
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Walter Gropius |
German architect. Founder of the Bauhaus. Lived in the Flats 1934–1937. |
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Kathy Harben |
Manager of the Isobar and Half Hundred Club. |
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Philip Harben |
Chef and manager of the Isobar and Half Hundred Club, took over from Tommy Layton. |
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E. F. Herbert |
Children’s book writer. |
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Erich Moritz von Hornbostel |
Austrian musicologist. |
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Edmond Kapp |
Painter. |
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Helen Kapp |
Manager. Art historian. |
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Barbara Kuczynski (Barbara Taylor) |
Jurgen Kuczynski’s sister. German communist. Soviet spy. |
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Brigitte Kuczynski (Bridget Lewis) |
Jurgen Kuczynski’s sister. German communist. Soviet spy. |
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Jurgen Kuczynski |
German communist. Soviet spy. |
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Margueritte Kuczynski |
Married to Jurgen Kuczynski. Alsatian. Communist. Soviet spy. |
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Tommy Layton |
Founder of Layton’s Wine Merchants. First manager of the Isobar. |
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Anthony Gordon Lewis |
British communist married to Brigitte Kuczynski, worked for the BBC’s Listener Research Department. Suspected Soviet sub-agent. |
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René Little |
Manager of the Lawn Road Flats. |
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Charles Madge |
Creator of Mass Observation. |
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László Moholy-Nagy |
Hungarian painter, linked with the Hungarian Communist Party. Member of the Bahaus. Lived in the Flats 1935–1937. |
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Nicholas Monsarrat |
Writer. |
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Henry Moore |
Sculptor and painter. |
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Lena Neumann |
Manager of Lawn Road Flats. Austrian. |
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Louis Osman |
Architect and goldsmith. |
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Fleetwood Pritchard |
Civil servant. Director of Public Relations at the Ministry of Transport. |
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Jack Pritchard |
Entrepreneur, built and owned the Lawn Road Flats. |
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Molly Pritchard |
Psychologist. |
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Michael Rachlis |
Russian-Jewish architect. |
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Eva Collett Reckitt |
Reckitt & Colman mustard heiress. Owner of Colletts left-wing bookshop, Charing Cross Road, London. Soviet agent. |
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Egon Riss |
Austrian architect. |
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Dr Rothfels |
German-Jewish émigré. |
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Andrew Rothstein |
British/Russian communist and Soviet agent. TASS correspondent. Possible wartime resident. |
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Diana Rowntree |
Architect. |
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Kenneth Rowntree |
Architect. |
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Lance Sieveking |
Broadcaster. |
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Adrian Stokes |
Writer and painter. |
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Duncan Murnett Macrae Taylor |
British communist. Suspected Soviet agent. |
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Hugh Weeks |
Director of Central Statistics at the Ministry of Supply. |
Non-resident members of the Half-Hundred Club
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Pearl Adam |
Observer journalist. |
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James Bone |
London editor of the Manchester Guardian. |
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Margaret Cole |
Crime writer married to historian G. D. H. Cole. |
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S. R. Elliott |
Reynold’s News journalist. |
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William Norman |
Ewer Journalist. Soviet agent. |
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Barbara Hepworth |
Sculptor and painter. |
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J. F. Horrabin |
Cartoonist (left wing). |
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Julian Huxley |
Scientist. Director Zoological Gardens, Regents Park. |
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Cyril Joad |
Broadcaster. Soviet sub-agent. |
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R. S. Lambert |
Editor of the Listener, journalist. |
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Francis Meynell |
Journalist. Soviet sub-agent. |
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Ben Nicholson |
Artist. |
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Daisy Postgate |
Daughter of Labour MP George Lansbury. Married to Raymond Postgate. |
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Raymond Postgate |
Historian. Founder of The Good Food Guide. |
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D. N. Pritt |
Labour MP and lawyer. |
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Dick Russell |
Architect and industrial designer. |
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Aylmer Vallance |
Journalist, News Chronicle and New Statesman. |
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Phyllis Vallance |
School friend of Margaret Postgate. Married Aylmer Vallance in 1932. |
Regular visitors to the Flats associated with CPGB and the Soviet Intelligence Services
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Len Beurton |
British communist. Soviet agent. |
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Alexander Foote |
British communist. Soviet agent. |
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Berta Kuczynski |
German communist. Mother of the Kuczynski family. |
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Robert (René) Kuczynski |
German communist. Father of the Kuczynski family. |
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Renate Kuczynski Youngest of the Kuczynski daughters. |
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Ursula Kuczynski (Sonya) |
German communist. Soviet spy, controller of the atomic spies Melita Norwood and Klaus Fuchs. |
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Sabine Kuczynski |
German communist. Suspected Soviet agent. |
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Francis Loeffler |
Solicitor. German communist married to Sabine Kuczynski. Suspected Soviet agent. |
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Harry Pollitt |
General Secretary of CPGB. Visitor to Eva Collett Reckitt. |
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Beatrix Tudor-Hart |
Nursery school teacher (‘of the Montessori type’). Lover of Jack Pritchard, mother of Pritchard’s illegitimate child, Jennifer. Member of the World League for Sexual Reform. |
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Edith Tudor-Hart (née Suschitsky) |
Bauhaus-trained photographer, school teacher (‘of the Montessori type’). Took the photos of the opening of the Lawn Road Flats. |
Lawn Road residents or visitors linked with the CPGB and Soviet Intelligence