Vicar of St Mary of Eton, the Eton Mission, appointed in 1889 and, finding that boys playing football in Victoria Park was problematic, he set in motion the acquisition of 337 acres of Hackney Marshes in 1890 as a perpetual open space for the people of London. A member of the London Playing Fields Society.
1902-17 we find references to him in the Cheveley/Cambridge area. and in 1920 he's in Suffolk.
Source: Teachers And Football: Schoolboy Association Football In England, 1885-1915
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Rev. E. K. Douglas
In remembrance of the Rev. E. K. Douglas, Vicar of S. Mary of Eton, The Eton ...
Architect and prolific writer of church hymns (nearly 2000!). Born Wapping. Died Homerton where he was a church warden at St. Barnabas.
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Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
Church destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666, rebuilt by Wren and demolished 1844.
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