Young vicar who created The Samaritans.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Chad Varah
Commemorated ati
Samaritans at St Stephen Walbrook
In St. Stephen Walbrook on 2 November 1953 the Samaritans were founded by Dr....
St Stephen Walbrook church
City and Diocese of London. The Lord Mayor's parish church of St. Stephen Wa...
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Holy Trinity Priory
Demolished by Henry VIII as part of the dissolution of the monasteries. Our picture shows the ruins as they were in 1826. c.1485 the priory built Bromley Hall, a manor house near the River Lea, st...
Nathaniel Mather
Non-conformist minister. Born Lancashire. Buried in Bunhill burial ground.
Queen Anne's Bounty
Following the Reformation the taxes on church livings, which used to be paid to the Pope, went to the Crown. In 1704, during Queen Anne's reign, a scheme was implemented that used some of these fun...
Fr. Frank Oakley Rowland
Fr. Rowland opened a a mission church in 1881 in a small field near a pond just off the Brecknock Road. This later became the church hall - still in use in 2013 (probably the building immediately...
Rev. Henry Allon
Born near Hull. Joint pastor of the Islington Union Chapel from 1843/4 with Thomas Lewis, taking sole charge on Lewis's death in 1852, until his own death. Friends with Gladstone and Asquith (wh...
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