To the memory of
William Gilson Humphrey B.D.
Scholar divine
Vicar of this parish from 1855 to 1886
Born Jan. 1815 Died Jan. 1886
Site: Vicar Humphreys (1 memorial)
WC2, Adelaide Street
To the memory of
William Gilson Humphrey B.D.
Scholar divine
Vicar of this parish from 1855 to 1886
Born Jan. 1815 Died Jan. 1886
WC2, Adelaide Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Vicar Humphreys
William Gilson Humphry was born on 30 January 1815 in Sudbury, Suffolk, the e...
{On long, low bronze plaques, one on each face, starting at the south and going clockwise:} To commemorate the jubilee of The Metropolit...
There is another trough with the same inscription further west along the road.
Silver Tiger thinks the inscriptions reads "G. G." and that might be right (it's certainly punningly right) but our fingers read "C. G." ...
This is a very unusual monument for the time, being in honour of a working man.
The water source was discovered at the end of the 17th century. 'Chalybeate' denotes a natural mineral spring containing iron salts. At t...
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