James Hudson Taylor used these premises (1872 - 1895) for the work of the China Inland Mission which he founded in 1865.
N5, Pyrland Road, 6
The CIM was established at number 6 and later extended to incorporate numbers 4 and 2. It moved out of here to nearby Newington Green where you can still see the rather more imposing premises, which, in July 2004 were undergoing a major renovation.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
James Hudson Taylor
The picture source website provides lots of useful information on the CIM.
Born Barnsley, Yorkshire. Died Changsha, Hunan, China (340 miles north of Ca...
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Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society confirms our link to the 4th Earl.
Publisher who was the first to be successful with books for children. Born Berkshire. Died at home in St Paul's Churchyard. In the absense of a picture of Newbery himself we are showing one of his...
Social reformer, OBE, JP. Born 17 Princelet Street. (The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has "19" but perhaps the street was renumbered when it was renamed from Princes to Princelet Street....
Field Marshal. Born Dublin. Served in the Indian Rebellion and the Crimean War. Led the attempt to relieve Khartoum. 1895 - 1900 Commander-in-Chief of the British Army. The very model of the 'Mod...
Person, Armed Forces, Africa, Burma, Canada, China/Hong Kong, Crimea, France, India, Ireland
Civil Engineer, born Hacqueville, Normandy, France. Educated in France, but forced to flee to the United States after publicly predicting the demise of Robespierre. He submitted a design for the Ca...
London Borough of Barnet Sir Ove N. Arup, lived in this house from 1932 to 1939.
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