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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Dean Richard William Church
This cast of characters also appear on the nearby St Paul's Choir school plaq...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Dean Richard William Church
The feast of the conversion of St Paul is on 25th January which gives the ere...
William Gilson Humphry was born on 30 January 1815 in Sudbury, Suffolk, the eldest of the six children of William Wood Humphry (1787-1865) and Betsy Ann Humphry née Gilson (1790-1862). He was bapti...
According to Wikipedia: a legendary 2nd-century King of the Britons traditionally credited with introducing Christianity into Britain.
Born Newcastle upon Tyne. Cardinal. Archbishop of Westminster from 1976 until his death. President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales from 1979 until his death, at the Hospita...
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.
