Person    | Male  Born 25/2/1780  Died 6/9/1862

Archbishop John Bird Sumner

Categories: Religion

Born Warwickshire. Bishop of Chester 1828 - 48 when he was elevated to Archbishop of Canterbury. Brother to Charles Sumner, Bishop of Winchester. Died at his summer residence in Croydon, Addington Palace.

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Archbishop John Bird Sumner

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Archbishop Sumner's Memorial Schools

These three men must have been the vicars at St Philips, at the years given.

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Westminster Monastery

Westminster Monastery

Monks were first brought to Westminster in about 960 AD by St Dunstan, then Bishop of London.   The Monastery spread out over the area now occupied by Westminster Abbey and Westminster School The e...

Building, Religion

1 memorial
John Bradford

John Bradford

Protestant martyr burned at Smithfield.

Person, Execution, Religion

1 memorial
Chaplain 4th Class, The Reverend Cyril Bernard Wilson Buck, M.C., B.A.

Chaplain 4th Class, The Reverend Cyril Bernard Wilson Buck, M.C., B.A.

Cyril Bernard Wilson Buck was born on 1 June 1880 in West Ham, Essex (now Greater London), the youngest of the ten children of William Richard Buck (1837-1927) and Alice Emmeline Buck née Wilson (1...

Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Religion, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Robert Wedderburn

Robert Wedderburn

Wikipedia tells the sorry story of this man.  Born to a West African slave woman in Jamaica, his father, James Wedderburn, being a Scottish doctor and plantation owner, who had children by several ...

Person, Race Issues, Religion, Jamaica

1 memorial

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Somerset Walpole

Somerset Walpole

Rector and bishop. Full name George Henry Somerset Walpole. Born Nottinghamshire, the son of a reverend. Father of Hugh Walpole. After early service in the west of England he moved first to Auckla...

Person, Religion, New Zealand, Scotland, USA

1 memorial
Arpad Weisz

Arpad Weisz

Weisz, Árpád. Footballer. Born in Solt, Hungary. As well as Hungary, he also played for Czechoslovakia and Italy. He was part of the Hungarian squad in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. A serious ...

Person, Execution, Sport / Games, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Italy, Poland

1 memorial
Venn diagram

Venn diagram

Invented by Dr John Venn.  We think the attached picture does an excellent job of both illustrating all you need to know about how Venn diagrams work and also of succinctly answering that knotty qu...

Concept, Science

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