English Buildings has a good short intro to Quakers in England and an assessment of an important Quaker building, albeit, not in London. Quakers were active in the WW2 Kindertransport.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Society of Friends in London
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Friends Meeting Place - Peckham
Friends meeting house. This building was the Peckham meeting house of the Soc...
Kindertransport - Kent
{Carved into the right side of the plinth:} Pro dítě {Czech for “for the chil...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Society of Friends in London
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Quakers - Memorial Buildings
To the left of this huge plaque there is a small, simple and extremely well-m...
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Alexander MacLaren
Baptist preacher. Born Glasgow. President of the Baptist Union, 1875-6 and 1901-2. Died Edinburgh.
St Dunstan in the East
A church was first built on the site in Saxon times. It was restored by St Dunstan in 950 AD. Badly damaged by the Great Fire, it was patched up and then a steeple by Wren was added in 1701. In 181...
Henry J. McCulloch
My Primitive Methodists has found mentions of this man at: Foundation-stone laying, Arthur’s Hill, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Cambridge St Peters Street Primitive Methodist chapel : "H. J. McCulloch, Esq.,...
Heraclius of Jerusalem
Heraclius or Eraclius was archbishop of Caesarea and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem. Born in France, studied law in Bologna, arrived in the Kingdom of Jerusalem before 1168 and worked his way up to ...
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Barclays Bank
The bank's origins go back to the goldsmith bankers John Freame and Thomas Gould. James Barclay joined the business in 1736. After various name permutations, it became Barclay and Co. in 1896. As o...
William Pitt (the Elder)
Born Westminster. Earl of Chatham and Prime Minister. Father of William Pitt the Younger. Died Hayes, Kent.
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Andrea Angel, Edward Medal
Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. The Imperial War Museum has a page with many entries. There is also a page for his wife. In 1904 he marri...
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