Baptist pastor. Born Northamptonshire. Pastor at Goat Yard Chapel, Horselydown and/or the Baptist meeting-house in Carter Lane. In different sources we have read that Gill was succeeded in both these by John Rippon. Goat Yard was about where Boss Street now is and Carter Lane was a small street running due south from St Olave church. Died at home in Gracechurch Street, Camberwell. Buried in Bunhill burial ground.
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John Gill, DD
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Bunhill burial ground - 5
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First synagogue after resettlement
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Reverend George Augustus Mayo How
Prebendary of St Paul's, Rural Dean of Stepney and Vicar of Bromley St Leonard for twenty years. We learn from his obituary in the Guardian of 1 March 1893 that, apart from his first 6 months and ...
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Stewart D. Headlam
Stewart Duckworth Headlam was born on 12 January 1847 in Wavertree, Liverpool, Lancashire, the fourth of the five children of Thomas Duckworth Headlam (1806-1885) and Latitia Headlam née Simpson (1...
1 memorial
Ralph Jackson
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
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Lydia Rogers
Supposed witch. The wife of carpenter John Rogers, she belonged to a radical religious sect called the Anabaptists. She was accused of making a blood pact with the devil, who was said to have cut a...
1 memorial
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UB2, Merrick Road, Memorial Garden
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8 subjects commemorated
Trenchard - RSF
SW1, Victoria Embankment, Victoria Embankment Gardens - Whitehall section
The building behind is the former Air Ministry. We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveili...
1 subject commemorated
G. E. Woollett
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
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Lord Reith - WC1
WC1, Regent Square
Edward Irving was once the priest at the Gothic church that was on this site before WW2. Reith's parents were married in this church and ...
1 subject commemorated
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Born 7 Chester Street, Chelsea. Poet associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. He invented the poetic form called ‘roundel’. Was a good friend of Dante Rossetti, who called him his ’little Northumbrian ...
4 memorials
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