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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Count Zinzendorf

Count Zinzendorf

Religious and social reformer, German nobleman and Bishop of the Moravian Church. Born Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendork und Pottendorf in Dresden, Germany. As a student at the Halle Academy, he and o...

Person, Religion, Germany

1 memorial
Rev. Wilfred Charles Spreadbury

Rev. Wilfred Charles Spreadbury

Vicar of St Barnabas Church, Shacklewell Row immediately after WW2 until 1947 when he was appointed Rector of West Allington with East Allington and Sedgebrook, Lincs. Our colleague, Andrew Behan,...

Person, Religion

1 memorial
Union Chapel, Islington

Union Chapel, Islington

From Union Chapel: "Our story ... started in 1799 when dissenting congregants from St Mary’s, Upper Street began worshipping together in a private house in Highbury Grove."  This was number 18.  "E...

Building, Religion

3 memorials
Edward de Montjoie Rudolf

Edward de Montjoie Rudolf

Born at 63 Pleasant Place, West Square, Lambeth. Aged 13 he became the family's sole wage-earner, as an office boy. From then on he was self-educated. Got a job as a civil servant and was a volunte...

Person, Children, Peace, Politics & Administration, Religion, Social Welfare

1 memorial
St Johns Church Notting Hill

St Johns Church Notting Hill

A Grade II listed building, which forms the centrepiece of the Ladbroke estate. It is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

Building, Religion

1 memorial

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Benedetta Ciaccia

Benedetta Ciaccia

Benedetta Ciattia was born on 15 December 1974 in Italy and came to the UK in 1995. She lived in Norwich, Norfolk and was a business analyst at Pearson Publishing. Her obituary can be found on the ...

Person, Tragedy, Italy

2 memorials
Keith Bowler

Keith Bowler

We cannot find any information about Bowler himself, only that in c.1990-2010, at least, he lived in Wilkes Street Spitalfields and created these unusual pavement plaques. We understand they were c...

Person, Sculpture

22 memorials
Surrey Commercial Docks - relief model

Surrey Commercial Docks - relief model

SE16, Stave Hill

In 1985 the William Curtis Ecological Park was returned to the site owner, the London Docklands Development Corporation, who provided thi...

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
Edward Forset
1 memorial
Vanessa Ann Walder

Vanessa Ann Walder

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial