Grew up in Wapping. A spokesman for the Levellers and a colonel in the New Model Army. Killed by a Royalist raiding party during the siege of Pontefract. The Levellers arranged for his funeral, 14 November 1648, to also be a mass demonstration for their cause.
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Thomas Rainsborough
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Thomas Rainsborough
Thomas Rainsborough was buried in this churchyard on the 14th November 1648 a...
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C. S. Toms
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Worshipful Company of Firefighters
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Rear-Admiral Sir William Edward Parry, DCL, FRS
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V. H. Woodruff
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
W. Northcote
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.