Renowned Shakespearean actor and philanthropist.
Also known as Ned Allen. Born London near Bishopsgate and baptised at St Botolphs in 1566. Theatre manager and actor. Owned the Manor of Dulwich and founded the Fortune Theatre in EC1 and almshouses nearby, Dulwich College, and Alleyn's School. Favourite actor of Elizabeth I and James I. Died at home at Dulwich.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Edward Alleyn
The original buildings of Dulwich College, founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn a...
This sculpture depicts a scene on a stage, in which Alleyn is acting with a y...
Good master Edward Alleyn's Fortune Theatre stood on a site near here in 1600.
Southwark Cathedral For over 1,000 years Christians have worshipped here. AD ...
The church has two information boards, both of a standard design, which we wo...
Associated with the Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road, 1883. In particular, the choir.
Workhouses.org informs that schools for children on Sundays probably happened earlier but the movement started in 1780 when Robert Raikes opened a school in Gloucester.
Philanthropist, educationalist and prominent lay churchman. Born Tower Hill. Went into his father's wine merchant business. 1811 he took the house at Clapton. A leading member of the "Hackney P...
A training academy for British military personnel. It was established as the Combined Staff College in Latimer, Buckinghamshire. Renamed the National Defence College in 1971. Moved to Greenwich in ...
Quotations come from John Maxwell Edmonds and Laurence Binyon.
Formed to assist victims of the Brixton nail bomb.
An influential literary and art magazine. From a pdf issued for the unveiling: "... Stephen Spender joined Cyril Connolly and the wealthy patron Peter Watson in 1939 to set up Horizon at 6 Selwyn H...
The British Pathe commentator says the plaque will eventually be sent to Russia. Some people are carrying a large banner reading 'Quiet N...
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...
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