Humanist, scholar and intellectual. Born Aberdeen, came to London in 1719 to be a tutor but then became a bookseller in the Royal Exchange and also worked as a press-reader, earning the nickname "Alexander the Corrector". His main achievement was the Concordance to the Bible, published in 1737 and still used today. An eccentric man, he travelled the country lecturing against profanity and the breaking of the Sabbath, and he always carried a sponge to remove any offensive graffiti. Died at his lodgings in Camden Passage, while at prayer.
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Alexander Cruden
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Alexander Cruden
Camden Passage (link now dead) had a picture of the unveiling by Poet Laureat...
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St Matthews Friday Street
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Rev. John Ravenhill
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Lyon Cawch
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
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All Saints church Poplar
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2 memorials
Church of Christ Scientist - SW1
A Grade II listed building designed in the Byzantine Revival style by Robert Fellowes Chisholm. In its heyday it had congregations of up to 1400, but as attendance diminished, they moved to a small...
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Wilson Milbourne
A parishioner or member of the congregation of St Matthias, N16, who died in WW1.
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George H. Hodgson
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
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Mary Anne Clarke
Mistress of Prince Frederick, Duke of York. Born in Ball and Pin Alley, White's Alley, Chancery Lane as Mary Anne Thompson, she married Clarke, a stonemason who became bankrupt. She 'went bad' but ...
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