Person | Male Born 1214 Died 1294

Roger Bacon

Philosopher and Franciscan friar. Born Somerset. An early proponent of the modern scientific method. He studied at Oxford where there is a statue.

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Roger Bacon

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Roger Bacon, 1214 - 1294

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Church of St Marylebone

Old parish church , built 1400, rebuilt 1741, demolished 1949.

Building, Religion

1 memorial

In 1656 he founded almshouses in Palmer’s Passage for six poor old men and six poor old women together with a school for the education of twenty boys. Old maps show these almshouses running most of...

Person, Religion, Social Welfare

2 memorials

American troops in WW2 in London

During WW2 the US armed forces worshipped at the Grosvenor Chapel and partied at Rainbow Corner. This seems a good place to mention the searchable on-line honour roll of 28,000 Americans based in ...

Group, Armed Forces, Religion, USA

3 memorials

Thomas Johnson

Monk at London Charterhouse. Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death though there may have been a change of plan which meant he was fed for a while.

Person, Execution, Religion

1 memorial

Upton Chapel, Barkham Terrace

During the period 1785 -1862 a group of Particular Baptists used a house in what is now Burrell Street, SE11. They rebuilt it in 1801 and then in 1862 they had a new chapel built in Barkham Terrace...

Building, Religion

1 memorial