Person    | Male  Born 27/3/1757  Died 7/2/1826

John Townsend

Nonconformist minister. Born Whitechapel. Minister at Kingston, Bermondsey and then the Orange Street Chapel. 1807 co-founder of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb in Old Kent Road, which he partly funded. Died Bermondsey. Buried in Bunhill burial ground.

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John Townsend

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Robert Browning Settlement

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Elizabeth Jesser Reid

Elizabeth Jesser Reid

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Marguerite Nabers "Wita" Harbert

Marguerite Nabers "Wita" Harbert

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