The Reverend Richard Cranmer was Lord of the Manor of Mitcham Canons. A nearby road and green both bear his surname. He had died before 1831. From Merton: "The Canons House and estate remained in the ownership of the Cranmer family and their descendants the Simpsons until 1939..."
The Cranmers were descendants of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer who lived during the religious upheaval of the 16th century.
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Reverend Richard Cranmer
The inscription is badly deteriorated, so we have copied the inscription from...
The church on the Mile End Road was opened in 1903, the school, shown in this picture, behind the church, in 1896. Both funded by the Howard Family of Norfolk.
Committee chairman. Because of the unusual surname, it is almost certain that he was the same Reverend Samuel Bickersteth who had been vicar of Leeds, Lewisham and nearby Crofton Park.
Princess and saint. Born either in the castle of Sárospatak, or in Pozsony, both in the Kingdom of Hungary. She was married at the age of fourteen to Louis IV, the Landgrave of Thuringia, and wid...
Kathleen Ferrier, 1912 - 1953, contralto, lived here. Greater London Council
Mathematical physicist and engineer. Born Belfast. His family moved to Glasgow when he was aged 11. Worked in thermodynamics and on the transatlantic cable. 1st Baron Kelvin. Died Largs Ayrshire.