Person    | Male  Born 7/11/1918  Died 21/2/2018

Billy Graham

Categories: Religion, Seriously Famous

Countries: USA

William Franklin Graham Jr. was an American evangelist and an ordained Southern Baptist minister who became well known internationally in the late 1940s. He was a prominent evangelical Christian figure.

His 1954 London Crusade ran for 12 weeks at Harringay Arena. In 1955, he was invited by Cambridge University students to lead the mission at the university. Also in 1955 he preached at Wembley Stadium; in 1966 he was in Earl's Court (where Cliff Richard made his first public commitment to Christianity during a rally) and in 1984 in Birmingham. His final British crusade was in 1989.

This image shows Graham addressing the crowd at Trafalgar Square in the 1950s.

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Billy Graham

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Harringay Arena

The Harringay Arena, 1936 - 1978 The Arena Shopping Park takes its name from ...

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Loyal Temperance Legion

Loyal Temperance Legion

The children's branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and still active in 2008 - we found the pledge with a link to join: "The Pledge: That I may give my best service to home and country...

Group, Children, Food & Drink, Religion

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St Michael Paternoster Royal

St Michael Paternoster Royal

Destroyed in the Great Fire, rebuilt by Wren, badly damaged in WW2, restored 1968. Its name is explained by its location which used to be on/near two streets: Paternoster Lane, now College Hill, an...

Building, Religion

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Gravel Pit Chapel

Gravel Pit Chapel

Taking its name from a nearby gravel pit, this was established in Hackney between 1715 and 1716. Initially it was for a nonconformist congregation, but eventually became Unitarian. In 1809 it moved...

Building, Religion

1 memorial
John Primatt Maud, Bishop of Kensington

John Primatt Maud, Bishop of Kensington

Bishop of Kensington 1911 until his death. John Primatt Maud was born on 13 June 1860 in Tranmere, Cheshire, a son of the Reverend John Primatt Maud (1823-1899) and Fanny Elizabeth Dorothy Maud né...

Person, Religion

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St Leonards, St Martin's-le-Grand

St Leonards, St Martin's-le-Grand

The church seems to have occupied a site between St Martin's-le-Grand and Foster Lane. Destroyed in the Great Fire its ruins were, amazingly, not removed until the early 1800s.

Building, Religion

1 memorial