Young vicar who created The Samaritans.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Chad Varah
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Samaritans at St Stephen Walbrook
In St. Stephen Walbrook on 2 November 1953 the Samaritans were founded by Dr....
St Stephen Walbrook church
City and Diocese of London. The Lord Mayor's parish church of St. Stephen Wa...
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Rev. W. H. Hornby Steer
Born Birkenhead. Vicar of St Philips Lambeth 1898 - 1910. Biblical Studies: The Rev. W. H. Hornby Steer, MA, St John's College, Cambridge, Senior Curate of St Jude's Church, South Kensington, has ...
1 memorial
Bagley's Foundry / The Foundery
There was a gun-manufacturing foundry at Windmill Hill, now Tabernacle Street EC2, until an explosion on 10 May 1716. Captured French guns were being melted and the liquid metal was poured into mou...
2 memorials
College of Minor Canons in St Paul’s Cathedral
In existence before 1066. Richard II formalised the structure. At that time they were 12 in number but are now down to three, responsible for singing services and organising large and small scale...
Building, Music / songs, Politics & Administration, Religion
1 memorial
Winchester Cathedral
The original building was founded to the north of the present one. Work began on a new cathedral in 1079 and was consecrated in 1093. It has the longest nave of any Gothic cathedral in Europe. See ...
1 memorial
H. H. C. Richardson
Fr. Harry Richardson was instituted n 1925 as vicar of St Benet and All Saints and it fell to him to resolve the long-standing problem of the structurally unsound nave. The decision was to demolis...
1 memorial
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Old Spitalfields Market
1638 King Charles I gave a licence for flesh, fowl and roots to be sold on Spittle Fields. The market lapsed during the Commonwealth but it was re-founded in 1682 by King Charles II. The existing ...
3 memorials
William Leverton
Architect, builder and surveyor. Churchwarden at St Giles Church in 1800.
1 memorial
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Francis Smith
The Hammersmith ghost started haunting Black Lion Lane and St Paul's Churchyard in 1804. One night an excise officer, Francis Smith, filled his blunderbuss with shot, and himself with ale before ki...
1 memorial
Thomas Emley Young
A brief résumé of the man can be found on the Gerontology Wiki website. Thomas Emley Young was born c.1844 in Newcastle, Northumberland, the eldest of the six children of Thomas James Young (1819-...
1 memorial
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