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Though Andrew Mitchell, former Chief whip of the UK conservative party was forced to resign after allegedly calling a police officer a pleb for refusing to open the gates to Downing St for him to ride his bike through.
The neighborhood is named for a school formerly located at 24th Avenue and Downing St. which was named after John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), an abolitionist poet and a founding member of the American Republican political party.