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Wednesday night is family history night, so I’m currently watching Who Do You Think You Are?<\/a><\/em>, featuring Jeremy Irons<\/a>. They’ve just shown the marriage certificate of his great-great-grandfather, Thomas Irons. He was a Chartist<\/a>, and prior to that was a London policeman living at 10 Cowley Street, Westminster – a few doors away from the building (or the site at least) that became the SDP headquarters and currently home to the Liberal Democrats.<\/p>\n

Thomas Irons was subsequently arrested in connection with a planned insurrection and ended up with an 18 month sentence in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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