Born Malta, son of an army man. From his alma mater, the King's School Canterbury "From 1909 to 1916 he was Vicar of St Peter's Ealing and from 1916 until his death he was Vicar of St Peter's Eaton Square. In 1929 he took the additional duties of Rural Dean of Westminster and in 1934 was appointed a Prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral. During the war he served as a shelter warden and a firewatcher. He was killed during an enemy air raid when bombs hit St Peter's Church, Eaton Square."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Rev. Austin Thompson
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St Peters Eaton Square - Austin Thompson
That last phrase "Pray for his soul..." is surely a quotation but we can't so...
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Reverend William Doveton Keith-Steele
Vicar of St Judes in 1911. Wikipedia (in 2023) has "I can't find more information about the then vicar, although he had two young children, Katherine and Archibald at the time {of the plaque}. His ...
1 memorial
Agnes George
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for her Protestant beliefs.
1 memorial
Stephen Marshall
Born Huntingdon. 1619 ordained as a clergyman. Became a preacher to the House of Commons and was an influential speaker and supported the Parliamentary cause. Died Ipswich and buried in Westminster...
1 memorial
John Routh
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
1 memorial
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Whittington statuette - Felbridge
RH19, Eastbourne Road, Whittington College
The statuette shows Whittington in the same pose as that of the Felbridge Carew statue but it is only about 12 inches high and the fine m...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Sam Wanamaker
Actor, director and visionary who recreated Shakespeare's Globe. Born Chicago. In 1952, while working in the UK, he heard that the House Un-American Activities had black-listed him so he decided to...
2 memorials
Gilbert Ernest Adams, DFC
Surbiton man killed serving in WW2. Pilot Officer Gilbert Ernest Adams DFC was the third of the five children of Ernest George Adams (b.1884) and Florence Annie Adams née Arkell (1887-1949). His b...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Gerald M. Stitcher, CBE
Member of the Joint Co-ordinating Committee in 1982 for opening Tower Bridge to the public.
1 memorial
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