deliver a petition to the prime minister in person. Caxton Hall's central role in the militant suffrage movement is now commemorated by a bronzed scroll sculpture that stands nearby in Christchurch Gardens open space. In 1910 the occultist Aleister Crowley staged his Rites of Eleusis at Caxton Hall. The series of performances took place over six weeks, and received mixed reviews. On 10 October 1925, Harry Pollitt, founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain was married here to Marjorie Brewer. Their best man and witness was Percy Glading, who would later be imprisoned for spying for the OGPU. During the Second World War it was used by the Ministry of Information as a venue for press conferences held by Winston Churchill and his ministers. This wartime role is marked by a commemorative plaque unveiled in 1991. In 1940 it was the site of the assassination of Michael O'Dwyer, former Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab in India by Indian nationalist Sardar Udham Singh, as an act of revenge for the 1919 Amritsar Jallianwala Bagh massacre, because O'Dwyer was responsible for ordering a crackdown on villagers gathered in the Bagh to peacefully celebrate the important Sikh festival of Baisakhi. At the end of his speech, Sardar Udham walked towards O'Dwyer, called out his name formally, and shot him dead. It was the location of the press conference that the Russell–Einstein Manifesto was released in 1955 in response to the threat of nuclear war and humanity destroying itself. On 12 May 1960, over 1,000 people attended the first public meeting of the Homosexual Law Reform Society. The National Front was formed at a meeting in Caxton Hall, Westminster on 7 February 1967. It was also used as a central London register office for weddings from October 1933 to 1978. On 18 August 1952, future Prime Minister Anthony Eden married Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, the niece of the then Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Other notable people who were married there include; Donald Campbell, Elizabeth Taylor, Roger Moore, Adam Faith, Joan Collins, Peter Sellers, Yehudi Menuhin and Ringo Starr. References External links Caxton Hall in Westminster and the marriage of Diana Dors to Dennis Hamilton Another Nickel in the Machine. Accessed July 2011. Many pictures of Caxton Hall events. Grade II listed buildings in the City of Westminster Government buildings completed in 1883