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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Rev. John Newton
This sculpture, 'Gilt of Cain', was unveiled by Bishop Tutu in commemoration ...
Pioneer participant in the Notting Hill Carnival. Musical arranger working with steel bands. Coming from Trinidad he has travelled widely and in 1984 moved to Switzerland. Source: 2004 Panpodium.
Person, Community / Clubs, Music / songs, Caribbean Islands, Switzerland
Opened as the Maida Vale roller skating palace and club. Demolished and rebuilt in 1933/34, It now comprises seven studios and is used for recording a large variety of music and other programmes fo...
Richmond Michael Jokhan was born on 14 November 1959, the eldest of the five children of Benny Jokhan (1931-2023) and Bernadine Jokhan née Roberts. His birth was registered as Michael R. Jokhan in ...
Sterling Betancourt MBE, FRSA is a Trinidad-born pioneer, arranger and musician on the steelpan, a major figure in pioneering the Pan in Europe and the UK and an important pioneer participant in th...
Long-term member of the Mangrove Mas band and an important part of the Notting Hill Carnival. Died in or shortly before August 2016. Source: BuzzFeed.
Wesley attended a meeting convened by James Hutton in Nettleton Court, off Aldersgate Street or at 28 Aldersgate Street. Here he felt a "warming of the heart". Three memorials all erected in sligh...
Greater London Council Major-General William Roy, 1726 - 1790, founder of the Ordnance Survey, lived here.
In 1714 Russell was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and that year he commissioned this house at 43 King Street from the architect T...
Pilot. Born at Reynella, South Australia. He came to England in 1929 (or 1921, see below) and studied at Oxford. He became a test pilot for Hawker's and in 1940 was attached to 43 Squadron. On the ...
The picture shows the frigidarium, with statues in niches near the tops of the columns. The Turkish baths, constructed as part of the 1913 extension to the Imperial Hotel, were the subject of an e...
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