Person    | Male  Born 25/4/1815  Died 9/12/1890

Dean Richard William Church

Categories: Religion

Countries: Wales

Dean of St Paul’s from 1871 to 1890. Died Dover.

2019: We were contacted by Ann Hentschel who told us that church was born Lisbon, Portugal, not Newport, Wales, as we had read elsewhere. Ann has published her researches on RWC's mother at Bromley Caroline Metzener Family Tree.

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Dean Richard William Church

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Amen Court

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Dean Richard William Church

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St Paul’s Choir school

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Mothers' Union

Mothers' Union

International Christian charity that seeks to support families worldwide. Founded by Mary Sumner near Winchester, in the parish where her husband was rector. With the support of the Bishop of Winch...

Group, Community / Clubs, Religion

2 memorials
Revd. D. Vawdrey

Revd. D. Vawdrey

Rector of St Dunstans Stepney in 1844, possibly 1842 - 47.

Person, Religion

1 memorial
Christchurch - Greyfriars Vestry

Christchurch - Greyfriars Vestry

Originally added to the church in 1760, built flush against the facade's south side and part of the church's south wall. Partially destroyed 1940, rebuilt in 1981.

Building, Religion

1 memorial
Samuel Wesley (poet)

Samuel Wesley (poet)

Church of England clergyman and poet.  Born Dorset.  Rector of Epworth, Lincolnshire. See his wife Susannah Annesley for the children.

Person, Religion

1 memorial
Bagley's Foundry / The Foundery

Bagley's Foundry / The Foundery

There was a gun-manufacturing foundry at Windmill Hill, now Tabernacle Street EC2, until an explosion on 10 May 1716. Captured French guns were being melted and the liquid metal was poured into mou...

Building, Engineering, Religion

2 memorials

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Anglo-Finnish Society

Anglo-Finnish Society

From their website: "The Anglo-Finnish Society is the oldest Finland related voluntary organisation in the UK. Non-political and non-profit making, the Society fosters cultural and social relations...

Group, Community / Clubs, Finland

1 memorial
Heroic Self Sacrifice Memorial Committee

Heroic Self Sacrifice Memorial Committee

Created to oversee the completion of the 'Wall of Heroes' in Postman's Park, members included the vicar and churchwardens of St Botolph's Aldersgate and, we assume, G. F. Watts and Mary Watts at so...

Group, History, Politics & Administration

5 memorials
Festival of Britain

Festival of Britain

'A tonic for the Nation', The Festival was intended to cheer us all up after WW2, and incidentally to celebrate the centenary of the 1851 Great Exhibition. The symbol for the Festival was designed ...

Event, Art, Cinema, Science, Tourism / Traditions

20 memorials
World War 1

World War 1

We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

403 memorials
Fawcett Association

Fawcett Association

Trade union of postal sorting clerks.  Founded by Wallace Cheesman and named after Henry Fawcett.  The Women Sorters' Association and the Postal Bagmen's Association affiliated in 1908.  In 1919 it...

Group, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration

1 memorial