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...
Jabez West fountain
This is a very unusual monument for the time, being in honour of a working man.
Other Subjects
St Mary Axe Church
Its full name was the Church of St Mary, St Ursula and her 11,000 Virgins. The origin of the nick name supposedly derives either from a sign of an axe over the east end of the church or from a reli...
1 memorial
South Place Chapel
A radical nonconformist congregation, led by William Johnson Fox moved from Bishopsgate premises into this purpose-built Chapel at South Place, Finsbury. In 1926 the South Place Ethical Society sol...
1 memorial
Revd. Thomas Rose
Tortured and exiled for his Protestant beliefs. Chaplain to the Earl of Essex and vicar of West Ham, 1551 - 1563. Although not a martyr he was tortured & exiled for preaching against auricular ...
1 memorial
Rev John Gordon
Rector of St. Antholins including the old parish of St John the Baptist upon Walbrook. Gordon had been vicar in Edwinston, Nottinghamshire. In 1827 he became rector at St. Antholins and that same...
1 memorial
Rev. Edward Birch
Researching a plaque about West Hackney National Schools we did not expect to find the supposed straight-laced Victorians gleefully publishing a pamphlet giving the details brought out in the trial...
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