Person    | Male  Born 22/11/1790  Died 15/8/1874

Charles Sumner, Bishop of Winchester

Categories: Religion

Charles Richard Sumner KG was a Church of England bishop. Consecrated  Bishop of Winchester in 1827. In 1869 he resigned his seat, but continued to live at the official residence in Farnham until his death.

Brother to John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Charles Sumner, Bishop of Winchester

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Royal South London Dispensary for the Working Poor

This stone was laid by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge assisted by t...

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Richard Wyche, Vicar of Deptford

Richard Wyche, Vicar of Deptford

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Walter Peerson

Walter Peerson

Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.

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St Gabriel Fen(church)

St Gabriel Fen(church)

Dating back to at least 1331, the church was destroyed in the Great Fire after which the parish united with that of St Margaret Pattens, in 1670 and then in 1954 was included in that of St Edmund t...

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Thomas Becket

Thomas Becket

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Stephen William Leigh

Stephen William Leigh

Engineer at Teddington Lock, 1857.

Person, Engineering

1 memorial
Dickens plaque - EC1

Dickens plaque - EC1

EC1, Holborn, 273, Holborn Bars (ex-Prudential Building)

But he did not live in the building here today, he lived in Furnival's Inn.

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R.F. Delderfield

R.F. Delderfield

Author. Born Ronald Frederick Delderfield at 37 Waller Road, New Cross. His family moved to Addiscombe near Croydon, which provided the backdrop to his first major novels 'The Dreaming Suburb' and ...

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1 memorial
Derek Nimmo

Derek Nimmo

Actor.  Born Liverpool.  Played vicars in a number of TV sitcoms and regulary appeared on the radio programme 'Just a Minute'.  Died in the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, following a fall at home.

Person, Humour, TV & Radio

1 memorial
Richard Carr-Gomm

Richard Carr-Gomm

SE16, Gomm Road, 36

The plaque was erected while he was still alive.

3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator