Clergyman. Born at 2 West Wing, Lansdown Crescent, Bath. Ordained as a priest in 1844. In 1855 he and other priests founded the Society of the Holy Cross, as an international Anglo-Catholic society of priests. He acquired land in 1860 and began raising funds for what was to become the church of St Peter's, London Docks in Wapping. Died at the Hotel Krone, Zell am See, Austria.
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Charles Fuge Lowder
This Clergy House was erected to the memory of Charles Fuge Lowder, priest, w...
Active in 1901 as rector of St Andrew by the Wardrobe. From A lord mayor's diary, 1906-7: "Rev. Percival. Clementi-Smith . . . has a very good head of white hair and a fine healthy-looking, good-h...
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Born in Edinburgh. Scientist, writer, dramatist and poet. Publicist of the campaign for sexual education. Advocate of family planning and founder of pioneer birth control clinic. Courageous crusade...
From the parish of St. John Clerkenwell. Probably died shortly before 1714. Father of John.
Samuel Palmer, 1805 - 1881, artist, lived here, 1851 - 1861. Greater London Council
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