Person    | Male  Born 2/11/1739  Died 21/12/1815

William Vincent

Categories: Benefactor, Education, Religion

Schoolar and theologian. Born Limehouse. Educated at Westminster School. Headmaster of Westminster School 1788-1802. Dean of Westminster 1803-15. Responsible for enclosing what is now Vincent Square thus saving it from development and keeping it as playing fields for the school. Died Islip, Oxfordshire, where he had become rector in 1807.

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William Vincent

The terracotta plaque and Nabresina stone tablet, were commissioned by the re...

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Sir John Isaac Thornycroft

Sir John Isaac Thornycroft

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Mrs Eliza Wilson

Mrs Eliza Wilson

Born Eliza Lawes, daughter of Edward Hobson Vitruvius Lawes and Jane Edwards Lawes. He was a barrister and lived in Serjeants Inn, and their daughter was baptised on the 1st April 1824 at St. Andre...

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