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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Rev. Joseph Toulson

Rev. Joseph Toulson

From Famous Pulpits of our Churches - Caledonian Road, by by Rev. William Mincher: "In 1868 Joseph Toulson became minister. He was a man of wonderful resource, untiring patience, and consummate tac...

Person, Religion

1 memorial
Paul's Cross

Paul's Cross

Sermons had been preached at Paul's Cross since at least the 12th century. In 1449 Bishop Kemp had it rebuilt and it remained in that form until in 1643 the puritanical Long Parliament ordered its...

Building, Religion

2 memorials
Rev. T. W. Fowle

Rev. T. W. Fowle

Active in 1864.

Person, Religion

1 memorial
Rev. John Newton

Rev. John Newton

A slave-trader turned preacher and abolitionist.  Born Wapping.  Began his ecclesiastical career at Olney in Buckinghamshire where he wrote the words to 'Amazing Grace' and published the hymn in a ...

Person, Music / songs, Race Issues, Religion

1 memorial
Oliver Plunkett

Oliver Plunkett

Archbishop and saint. Born Ireland, admitted to the Irish College in Rome and ordained in 1654.  He was appointed Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland in 1669, but because of the suppres...

Person, Religion, Ireland, Italy

2 memorials