types that I had seen since I came to London. The occasion of my seeing them was the funeral of Mr. George Odger, which befell some four or five weeks before the Easter period. Mr. George Odger, it will perhaps be remembered, was an English Radical agitator of humble origin, who had distinguished himself by a perverse desire to get into Parliament. He exercised, I believe, the useful profession of a shoemaker, and he knocked in vain at the door that opens but to the refined. But he was a useful and honourable man, and his own people gave him an honourable burial." George Odger is buried in Brompton Cemetery. Odger is listed on the Reformers' Memorial in Kensal Green Cemetery in London. Odger Street on the John Burns' Latchmere Estate in Battersea is named after him. A London County Council commemorative Blue Plaque was erected at Odger's former residence, 18 St Giles High Street, in the 1950s. After this house was demolished in the 1970s the plaque was rescued and can now be seen in the lobby of St Giles in the Fields having been placed there in 1974. Footnotes Further reading Keith Gildart and David Howell (eds.), Dictionary of Labour Biography: Vol. XIII.Basingstoke 2010; pp. 292–300. "George Odger," Obituary in The Spectator, 10 March 1877; pg. 12. General Secretaries of the Trades Union Congress People from South Hams (district) 1813 births 1877 deaths English socialists English trade unionists English people of Cornish descent Liberal-Labour (UK) politicians Burials at Brompton Cemetery Members of the International Workingmen's Association Members of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress