Person    | Male  Born 7/4/1848  Died 25/5/1930

Randall Thomas Davidson, Baron Davidson of Lambeth

Categories: Religion

Countries: Scotland

Archbishop of Canterbury. Born Edinburgh. A pupil at Harrow. Suffered all his adult life from the damage to his lower back caused by a shooting accident. 1877 married Edith daughter of Archibald Tait, the Archbishop of Canterbury at the time, but they had no children. A favourite of Queen Victoria. Archbishop of Canterbury 1903 - 28, the first to retire, rather than die in office. He resigned on 12 November 1928, his golden wedding anniversary. Died at home, 10 Cheyne Walk.

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Randall Thomas Davidson, Baron Davidson of Lambeth

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Randall Thomas Davidson - Lambeth Palace

Erected the year after Davidson's death, about 18 months after his resignatio...

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Randall Thomas Davidson, Baron Davidson of Lambeth

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Harrow School - WW1 memorial

The plaque was laid in 1921 (British Pathe film) and the building was opened ...

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Opening of the BMA house

This inscription is on the inside of the west face of the courtyard, to the l...

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St Columba's Church Haggerston

St Columba's Church Haggerston

Designed by James Brooks. Located at 217 - 223 Kingsland Road, E2, it is now the Christ Apostolic Church.

Place, Religion

1 memorial
Croydon Parish Church

Croydon Parish Church

It was first mentioned in a will of about 960 A.D. In its final medieval form, it was mainly a perpendicular-style structure of the late 14th and early 15th-century. It was gutted by fire in1867 an...

Building, Architecture, Religion

1 memorial
Howell Powell Edwards

Howell Powell Edwards

Born Wales.   Studied at Oxford and entered the church.  Married Elizabeth Pugh, the daughter of the family where he was working as tutor.  Oxford Council Member and Canon of Llandaff Cathedral.  H...

Person, Religion, Wales

1 memorial
Reverend William Cadman

Reverend William Cadman

Canon of Canterbury. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: The Reverend William Cadman M.A. was born on 13 May 1815 in Billinge, Wigan, Lancashire, the son of William and Mary Cadman. On ...

Person, Religion

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James Baldwin Brown

James Baldwin Brown

Born 10, Harcourt Buildings, in the Inner Temple, to a barrister father with the same name. Congregational minister. 1846 elected as pastor at Claylands Chapel. 1870/1 Brown took most of his congre...

Person, Religion

1 memorial