Person    | Male  Born 24/7/1725  Died 21/12/1807

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 collection with William Cowper.  Rector of St Mary Woolnoth 1780 – 1807, where he delivered an anti-slavery sermon that inspired William Wilberforce. Died at home, Coleman Street Buildings.

 

 

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Rev. John Newton

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Gilt of Cain - Slave trade

This sculpture, 'Gilt of Cain', was unveiled by Bishop Tutu in commemoration ...

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Centenary Festival

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Centenary Festival

A year-long series of events organised by the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation, to mark the anniversary of the composer's death.

Event, Community / Clubs, Music / songs

1 memorial
Edward Dannreuther

Edward Dannreuther

Pianist and writer on music. Born in Strasbourg. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatoire, and moved to London in 1869 where he achieved great success performing the works of Beethoven and Chopin. F...

Person, Music / songs, France, Germany

1 memorial
Tin Pan Alley

Tin Pan Alley

‘Tin Pan Alley’ originally, 1885, referred to the section of New York City where music publishers and songwriters were based.  In 1920s London music shops congregated in Denmark Street and the term...

Place, Journalism / Publishing, Music / songs

1 memorial
Emile Ford

Emile Ford

Musician and singer. Born Michael Emile Telford Miller in Castries, Saint Lucia. His family moved to London in the mid 1950s where he taught himself to play a number of musical instruments. He made...

Person, Music / songs, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
Alexander Alfred Yeatman

Alexander Alfred Yeatman

Alexander Alfred Yeatman was born on 21 December 1858 at 20 Providence Place, Kentish Town, Middlesex (now Greater London), the second of the four children of Arthur Yeatman (1829-1903) and Elizabe...

Person, Liveries & Guilds, Music / songs, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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Sir Henry Irving - W6

Sir Henry Irving - W6

W6, Brook Green, St Paul's Girls School

Actor, Henry Irving, (John Henry Brodribb), 1838 - 1905, lived on this site, 1881 - 1889.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Duchess of Kent

Duchess of Kent

N1, Prebend Street, 32, Duchess of Kent pub

We identified which particular Duchess of Kent is represented by finding the painting on which the portrait is based at baltyra but the ...

1 subject commemorated
Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens

Artist and diplomat. Born in Siegen, Westphalia (modern day Germany). He studied art in Antwerp and Venice, and entered the service of Vincenzo Gonzago, Duke of Mantua, where he began a parallel ca...

Person, Art, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Belgium, Germany, Italy

3 memorials
P. T. Goodey

P. T. Goodey

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
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Dodi Fayed

Dodi Fayed

Born in Egypt, eldest son of millionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed. Briefly married to a model in 1986. July 1997 began a romantic relationship with Princess Diana. August 1997, returning from a holiday, th...

Person, Friend / family, Egypt

1 memorial