Wilfred Denniston Wood was Bishop of Croydon 1985 -2003, the first black bishop in the Church of England. He came second in the "100 Great Black Britons" list in 2004. Born in Barbados, ordained there and then came to London where he became a priest in 1962.
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Bishop Wood of Croydon
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Soweto children
This sculpture was inspired by a widely-circulated and influential news photo...
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Mrs Catherine Smithies
Born as Catherine Bywater. Founded the Band of Mercy movement in Britain. She also campaigned against slavery but we can find no details. Her home, Earlham Grove House, built c.1865, has also been...
Charles Grant
Anti-slavery campaigner. Born Scotland. Made a fortune working for the British East India Company of which he became Chairman. The death of two of his children brought about a religious conversi...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion, Scotland
Thomas Clarkson
Leading campaigner against the slave trade. A founding member of The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, in 1787, whose work was later taken over by the Anti-Slavery Society. A report of...
Samuel Morley
Born Well Street Hackney into a Nottingham family of wool/hosiery manufacturers and merchants. His father John, had come to London to set up an outlet for their products. Samuel went into the famil...
Person, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion
Cardinal Newman
Born 80 Old Broad Street, eldest son of a banker. Goaded into writing his Apologia by a criticism from Charles Kingsley published in a magazine. Established The Brompton Oratory. Died Edgbaston, B...
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St Michael's church WW1 cross
NW1, Camden Road
11 names are totally illegible and so are not included under Subjects commemorated. A few others are too weather-worn to to be totally l...
94 subjects commemorated
Alan Cartwright
Alan Barry Cartwright. At 7.30pm 15-year-old Alan was stabbed to death as he cycled with three friends in the Caledonian Road. The attackers made off with two bicycles. A few weeks later, on 6 Ma...
Hammersmith Socialists
W6, Upper Mall, 26, Kelmscott House
The inscription is a quote from William Morris's 1890 "News from Nowhere", in which the narrator, William Guest, the previous day having ...
Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy - original plaque
SE15, Linden Grove, Nunhead Cemetery
The plaque is actually a resin copy of the one that was attached to the original memorial for the Walworth Scouts drowned at Leysdown. Th...
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