Anti-slavery campaigner. Born Dorset. Trained in law and worked for a time in the Carribean where he saw the cruelty to slaves and became an abolitionist. The death of his first wife deepened his religious convictions. He moved to Clapham and became involved in the Clapham Sect to the extent of making William Wilberforce's sister his second wife. Great-grandfather of Virginia Woolf. Died at Bath.
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James Stephen
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Denis Nowell Pritt
Barrister and politician. Born at Fern Bank, Greenhill Park, Harlesden. Called to the bar in November 1909, he successfully defended Ho Chi Minh in 1931–32 against a French request for his extradit...
Police Station, Upper Street, Islington
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Albert Woodfox
Albert Woodfox was an American known as one of the Angola Three (Robert King, Herman Wallace and Woodfox) former prisoners who were held at Louisiana State Penitentiary in solitary confinement for ...
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Giltspur Street compter
A prison for debtors. The picture is by George Shepherd, brother of Thomas.
Charles Lyell
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Robinson Crusoe
SW17, Trevelyan Road, Norfolk House
c.2012: Brought to our attention by Clive Yelf on his always interesting blog, Faded London which seems to have folded. Wanting to establ...
East Ham war memorial
E6, High Street South, East Ham Central Park
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St Pancras Basin
Formerly known as the Midland Railway Basin (though we could find nothing under thatn name). Opened as a coal wharf. 1958 converted to a pleasure craft area. Now home to the St Pancras Cruising C...
Dennis Hewitt, VC
SW1, Victoria Embankment, Victoria Embankment Gardens
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