Leading Wesleyan Methodist. Born Manchester. Arrived in London in 1803. Regarded as the second founder of Methodism after John Wesley.
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St Mary Colechurch
First recorded in the late 12th century as an element in the name of the priest, Peter Colechurch, who built the first stone London Bridge. It is not known whether the church took its name from Pet...
Rev. Lewis Borrett White
Rector of St John the Baptist upon Walbrook in 1884. Born and died London.
John Rippon, DD
Baptist minister. In 1773 succeeded John Gill at two chapels in Southwark. 1833 the Carter Street mission house moved to New Park Street Chapel. We believe this was in what is now Park Street SE...
Frederick Denison Maurice
John Frederick Denison Maurice was born 29 August 1805 in Normanston near Lowestoft. He was the founder of the Working Men's College and an organizer of the Christian Socialist movement. He died,...
John Townsend
Nonconformist minister. Born Whitechapel. Minister at Kingston, Bermondsey and then the Orange Street Chapel. 1807 co-founder of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb in Old Kent Road, which he part...
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