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Peter Cadogan - 'a true Blakean' |
Celebration of a social activist and member of The Committee of 100
DOZENS of mourners paid their last respects to the lifelong social activist Peter Cadogan, in a celebration.
Many of those in attendance at the Golders Green crematorium on Saturday had fought for causes alongside the well-known campaigner, and Blakean from Kilburn down the years, until his death a fortnight ago aged 86.
Stalwart campaigner John Papworth, editor of The Fourth World Review and a member in the 1960s, like Mr Cadogan, of The Committee of 100, said that “saints always made trouble”.
Ernest Rodker, who had also known Mr Cadogan in the Committee of 100, and the Save London Alliance in the 1990s, described the deceased fondly as a “prickly pear”, while Tim Heath, chairman of The Blake Society, hailed him as a “true Blakean”, living true to his values.
In accordance with Mr Cadogan’s wishes, the event was a celebratory affair and many of the assembled guests, including veteran reformists Paul Ekins, Jim Radford and Colin Bex, squeezed into Mr Cadogan’s tiny flat in Hinchinbrook House, Greville Road, afterwards.
His daughter Claire Phillips said: “When I was little all the other dads used to mow the lawns – mine was getting himself arrested in Trafalgar Square. My father dreaded that no one would come and he would be very heartened by the turn-out.”
She hopes to get a memorial bench in front of his home and to scatter his ashes in the communal garden he helped to build.
She also intends to publish a book of his collected writings.
A memorial service for Mr Cadogan will be held at St James’ Piccadilly, where Blake was baptised, at 3pm on March 15. |
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