Tag: John Richard Archer

  • He has been described as Britain’s Barack Obama. Except John Richard Archer was elected to power almost a century before the 44th US president. And his seat wasn’t in Washington DC, but Battersea, London.

  • Election of the first black mayor Daily Mail 1913-11-10 Source: mytimemachine.co.uk Coloured Mayor—Majority of One at Battersea—Dramatic Speech For the first time in the history of this country a man of colour has been elected mayor of a borough. The honour has fallen to Mr. John Richard Archer, a photographer, of Battersea Park-Road, who by…