North Gower Street, NW1: Camden green plaque for Lord Pitt, civil rights campaigner

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North Gower Street, NW1: Camden green plaque for Lord Pitt, civil rights campaigner

Image: © Christopher Hilton Taken: 21 Jan 2011

David Thomas Pitt, later Baron Pitt of Hampstead (1913–1994), born in Grenada, was a general practitioner, politician and civil rights campaigner. From his surgery here in North Gower Street he treated members of the newly-arrived Commonwealth immigrant community in the 1950s, earning a respected position in that community. In the course of his career subsequently, he played a role in the setting up of CND, the Anti-Apartheid movement (whose first headquarters was in the basement here) and the Campaign against Racial Discrimination; stood twice for Parliament as a Labour candidate, for Hampstead and Clapham South; served first on the London County Council and then its successor the Greater London Council; chaired the Community Relations Commission; was elected President of the British Medical Association; and was elevated to the House of Lords in 1975.

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