Composer and keyboard player. Born Oxford. Died Canterbury.
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Orlando Gibbons
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Hoxton Hall
Built 1863 as Mortimer's Music hall. 1866 MacDonald took it over but in 1871 following complaints it lost its performance licence. Bought in 1879 by rich Quaker philanthropist William Isaac Palmer...
Building, Community / Clubs, Music / songs, Religion, Theatre
Andy Irish
We cannot definitively identify this artiste. Possibly the recording engineer, with real name George Chkiantz and alias Irish O'Duffy. From Discogs: "George Chkiantz was a recording engineer and ...
Rev. John Newton
A slave-trader turned preacher and abolitionist. Born Wapping. Began his ecclesiastical career at Olney in Buckinghamshire where he wrote the words to 'Amazing Grace' and published the hymn in a ...
Peter Tosh
Musician (and unicyclist). Born Winston Hubert McIntosh in Westmoreland, Jamaica. He founded the Wailers with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer in 1963, and later followed a solo career. He was shot dead...
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John Sinnott VC
Soldier. Born in Wexford, Ireland. He was a lance corporal in the 84th regiment of the British army. On 8th October at Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny, he and two other soldiers went out to rescue...
Lord Reith - WC1
WC1, Regent Square
Edward Irving was once the priest at the Gothic church that was on this site before WW2. Reith's parents were married in this church and ...
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