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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John Rochester
Monk at London Charterhouse. Exiled to the Charterhouse in Hull and then executed in York.
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Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road
The church moved here at the end of the 19th century from a Knightsbridge site, where the French Embassy now is. The British Library have a wonderful zoomable street-scape showing Knightsbridge w...
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Bishop Richard Challoner
Vicar-apostolic of the London District. Died Old Gloucester Street.
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Robert Burt
Vicar of Twickenham. Officiated at the secret wedding of George, Prince of Wales to Mrs Fitzherbert. Buried at St Mary the Virgin, Twickenham. From Barryslemming: "The Old Rectory at St Mary Ho...
1 memorial
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