Nonconformist minister. Born Wales. Began his education for ministry in Wellclose Square in 1759. Worked at a number of London congregations until 1783 when he settled at the Old Jewry Meeting-house where he remained for the rest of his life. Edited Rees's Cyclopædia, 1778 - 1820. Died at home in Artillery Place, Finsbury. Buried in Bunhill burial ground.
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Abraham Rees, DD
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Bunhill burial ground - 5
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St Augustine church, Hackney
Built as St Augustines by the end of the 13th century, probably on grounds belonging to the Knights Templar. When this order was taken over by the Order of St John, the church was renamed St John a...
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National Secular Society
Campaign promoting secularism and the separation of church and state. Founded by Charles Bradlaugh in 1866. Member of Humanists International.
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Charles Fuge Lowder
Clergyman. Born at 2 West Wing, Lansdown Crescent, Bath. Ordained as a priest in 1844. In 1855 he and other priests founded the Society of the Holy Cross, as an international Anglo-Catholic society...
1 memorial
St Mary Bothaw
'Bothaw' derived from 'boathouse', which makes sense when you remember that before the Embankment was built the Thames used be be a lot closer. In existence by 1279, it was destroyed in the Great ...
1 memorial
Gerald Blunt
Rector of Chelsea Old Church. Brother of Wilfred Scawen Blunt and father of Reginald, Chelsea historian and founder of the Chelsea Society and also of artist Arthur Cadogan Blunt (1860–1934). Bri...
1 memorial
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