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.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Charles Sumner, Bishop of Winchester
Bethlem Museum of the Mind holds: "Register of outpatients attending the Hosp...
From the building society that funded the Rochester Square Spiritualist Temple. Advertised in the Hendon & Finchley Times in the 1920s and 30s.
The current church was built in 1874, destroyed by enemy action on 16 April 1941, and rebuilt by 1955.
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
Poem by Alexander Pope. Its convoluted plot concerns a character called Belinda and a count who is determined to obtain a lock of her hair. Originally written in two cantos, it was expanded in 1714...
A misnomer since there is no connection with Cleopatra at all. In 1500 BC Pharaoh Thothmes erected two red granite obelisks at Heliopolis...
But he did not live in the building here today, he lived in Furnival's Inn.
Ceramic tile manufacturers. Founded by Jesse Carter, a builders’ merchant and ironmonger from Surrey. It was later renamed as the Poole Pottery. The Carter company produced much of the ceramic til...
Poet and story writer. Born: Bombay, India. Died: London. See Waterloo Free Buffet. 2021: The Guardian reported some updates to English Heritage's information on Kipling: "While his children’s sto...
Person, Literature, Poetry, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, India
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