Evangelist. Born Catherine Mumford in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. She married fellow methodist William Booth in 1855, and they embarked on a preaching tour of the country. Returning to London in 1864, they started work on forming the Salvation Army. She died in Clacton and over 30.000 people lined the route of her funeral procession in London.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Catherine Booth
The statue was dedicated on the centenary of Catherine Booth's birth, and aga...
{On the plaque attached to the front of the plinth:} Here, in East London, Ca...
The 1745 Association (who ought to know) writes: "The plaque on the side of t...
Parish church of St Stephen Coleman Street. Destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and rebuilt by Wren but then finally lost in WW2.
Created by Lord Frederick Roberts as the ArmyTemperance Association by amalgamating two other long-standing temperance associations all based in garrison towns. He also created the ArmyTemperance A...
Vice President of the National Federation of Housing Associations. Born London. Leading Catholic involved in housing needs.
Died in London prisons and were buried in Quaker Bunhill Fields Burial Ground.
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...
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