A Benedictine order of monks, founded in the Burgundian area of France, by Duke William of Aquitaine. It was unusual in that, unlike other monastic communities it was granted perpetual freedom from military service and other temporal obligations. The order spread to Britain in the eleventh century, with the first monastery being erected at Lewes.
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Order of Cluny
Bermondsey Abbey, founded as a Priory of the Order of Cluny, stood here, 1082...
Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
In the south-east corner of Cornhill and Gracechurch Street. A medieval church on the highest point of the City of London. The legend about its origin given on the Cornhill Insurance door is from...
Born Birkenhead. Vicar of St Philips Lambeth 1898 - 1910. Biblical Studies: The Rev. W. H. Hornby Steer, MA, St John's College, Cambridge, Senior Curate of St Jude's Church, South Kensington, has ...
Headmaster of Harrow School 1845 – 59. Born Leicester, son of a vicar. Educated Rugby and Cambridge, became a vicar and was then elected headmaster of Harrow. Resigned that post and went on to be: ...
Indian scholar and reformer. Born Bengal. Worked to abolish the Hindu tradition of sati, where a widow joins her husband on the funeral pyre. For his last three years he was the ambassador to Bri...
Born Hanover, Germany, died Kensington, Palace, London. Reigned: 1727 - 1760. Notable as the last British sovereign to fight alongside his soldiers (in Germany, against the French). Also the king w...
Born Epworth, Lincolnshire. Renowned Hymn writer. 21 May 1738 experienced his conversion (3 days before his brother's) at John Bray’s home where he was seriously ill in bed. Buried at the old paris...
Non-conformist minister. Born in Cambridgeshire. Died Hackney. Buried in Bunhill burial ground.
Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this woman: Born as Clare Martha Coyle on 23 December 1948 she married Barry K. Sculpher in 1981 in Brentwood, Essex. They lived a...
Great-grandson of Oliver Cromwell. From 'The House of Cromwell': "... for some time in partnership with his brother Thomas as a wholesale provision merchant, though he subsequently held a post in...
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