Person    | Male  Born 22/1/1828  Died 22/8/1909

Rev. Dawson Burns

Categories: Religion

Rev. Dawson Burns

Baptist minister and lifelong temperance activist. Born Southwark to Jabez Burns also a Baptist minister and temperance advocate from 1836. Died Battersea.

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Rev. Dawson Burns

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Chelsea Temperance Society - McCurrey

To the memory of James & Margaret McCurrey, early & devoted workers i...

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Jabez West fountain

This is a very unusual monument for the time, being in honour of a working man.

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Other Subjects

St Gabriel Fen(church)

St Gabriel Fen(church)

Dating back to at least 1331, the church was destroyed in the Great Fire after which the parish united with that of St Margaret Pattens, in 1670 and then in 1954 was included in that of St Edmund t...

Building, Religion

3 memorials
St Dunstan

St Dunstan

Born near Glastonbury. Active around 930 - 960. Patron saint of armourers, goldsmiths, locksmiths, and jewellers. His feast day is May 19th.

Person, Craft / Design, Religion

1 memorial
St Olave Hart Street - church

St Olave Hart Street - church

Survived the Great Fire but was so badly damaged in WW2 that for the period 1948 - 54 the congregation used a temporary church in Mark Street. Samuel Pepys and his wife Elizabeth are buried here a...

Building, Religion

3 memorials
Augustine of Canterbury

Augustine of Canterbury

Christianity had already taken root in Britain but it only came under Catholic control with the arrival of the first official Christian missionary to England, sent by Pope Gregory the Great.  Wikip...

Person, Religion, Italy

1 memorial
John Wesley's house

John Wesley's house

Wesley built the chapel first, 1778, and then two houses, one either side, one for his own use and one for visiting preachers and their hangers-on. Both designed by George Dance the younger who als...

Building, Religion

1 memorial