He came to St Peter's Church, London Docks in 1873, and devoted himself to providing the local people with schools, clubs and medical facilities. On one occasion he gave away his own clothes to a needy parishioner. His surname is misspelt on this stained glass window, and also on the plaque outside St Peter's church, or they are right and all the other references on the web are wrong.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Lincoln Stanhope Wainwright
Probably born in Dorset. Clergyman who worked at St Dunstan in the West, Westminster Abbey, and St Margaret's Westminster. Also spoke before the Houses of Parliament. Buried Westminster Abbey. Whe...
A minister in the Moravian church and the Aldersgate bookseller of John Wesley's Journal. He convened the meeting at which John Wesley's second conversion took place.
Also known as "Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes". The purposes of the Trustees are commemoration of the Aldersgate Conversion of John and Charles Wesley in May 1738.
Religious sect founded in America by Mary Baker Eddy. Adherents subscribe to a form of philosophical idealism, believing that reality is purely spiritual and the material world an illusion. This in...
