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. Claude Hinscliff

Rev. Claude Hinscliff

Member of Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage, founded the Church League for Women’s Suffrage in 1909 with his wife Gertrude. He officiated at Emily Wilding Davison’s funeral. Later he worked in Serb...

Person, Gender Issues, Religion, Romania, Serbia

1 memorial
Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Novelist. Born to an aristocratic Russian family. 1870s had a spiritual awakening and become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist.

Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Religion, Seriously Famous, Russia

1 memorial
National British Women's Temperance Association

National British Women's Temperance Association

Incorporated June 1896. We can't find any information about this organisation but think the NBWTA possibly mutated into the BWTA.

Group, Food & Drink, Religion

1 memorial
Mrs J. W. Humphries
1 memorial