Quaker activist and writer.
Born near Kendal. Died, unmarried, in Newgate prison and was buried at Bunhill Fields Burial Ground.
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Edward Burrough
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Quakers - Memorial Buildings
To the left of this huge plaque there is a small, simple and extremely well-m...
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Bishop Peter Amigo
Bishop. Born Peter Emmanuel Amigo at Waterport Street, Gibraltar. Ordained 1888. Consecrated as the 6th Bishop of Southwark on 25 March 1904. Founded the John Fisher School, Purley in 1929. Died at...
2 memorials
Oscar Romero
Roman Catholic archbishop in El Salvador, assassinated.
1 memorial
Francois Rabelais
Writer and physician. Born France, between 1483 and 1494, but probably November 1494. Became a monk and studied Latin and Greek, then left to study medicine. Died Paris.
Person, Literature, Medicine, Politics & Administration, Religion, France
1 memorial
Rev. John Newton
A slave-trader turned preacher and abolitionist. Born Wapping. Began his ecclesiastical career at Olney in Buckinghamshire where he wrote the words to 'Amazing Grace' and published the hymn in a ...
1 memorial
Barking Abbey
Former royal monastery. Founded by St Erkenwald, whose sister, Aethelburg, was the first abbess. Destroyed by the Danes it was rebuilt in the 10th century. William the Conqueror stayed here after h...
1 memorial
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Lady Eleanor Keane
Pioneer in youth work. Born Eleanor Lucy Hicks-Beach, eldest daughter of 1st Earl St Aldwyn. On Valentine's day 1907, just 2 months before laying the foundation stone, she married the Irishman Sir ...
1 memorial
Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road
The church moved here at the end of the 19th century from a Knightsbridge site, where the French Embassy now is. The British Library have a wonderful zoomable street-scape showing Knightsbridge w...
1 memorial
National Firefighters memorial
EC4, Sermon Lane
Two figures in the sculpture are based on a photograph, “A relief crew damping down in Cannon Street, 17th April 1941” but we cannot find...
War served | WW2
2 subjects commemorated, 8 creators
2 subjects commemorated, 8 creators
British Plaque Trust
A charity with: "The key objective of the British Plaque Trust (BPT) is to resurrect this national scheme {of English Heritage} which commemorates the lives and successes of notable figures by reco...
9 memorials
Mayor, Cllr Patricia Ekechi
Had lived in Enfield for more than 37 years when, in May 2015, she was appointed Mayor of Enfield.
1 memorial
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