One of the world's most famous civil rights activists, A Baptist minister, he visited London in December 1964 on his way to Oslo to collect his Nobel Peace Prize. He stayed at the Hilton, spoke at St Pauls Cathedral and visited Parliament. He was assassinated in 1969. His assassin, James Earl Ray, was arrested at Heathrow Airport.
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Martin Luther King
Born at 63 Pleasant Place, West Square, Lambeth. Aged 13 he became the famil...
Theologian. Born Florence, Italy. son of an Austrian nobleman/diplomat. Di...
105 Catholic martyrs lost their lives at the Tyburn gallows, 1535 - 1681. Th...
A church was first built on the site in Saxon times. It was restored by St Du...
