Bishop of Willesden from 2001. He caused controversy when Prince William and Catherine Middleton became engaged. He announced he was a republican, calling the couple 'shallow celebrities' and saying that the marriage would last less than seven years.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Pete Broadbent
A very modern war memorial (which even has seating space for the weary), but ...
Rector of St. Antholins including the old parish of St John the Baptist upon Walbrook. Gordon had been vicar in Edwinston, Nottinghamshire. In 1827 he became rector at St. Antholins and that same...
Vicar of Chelsea Old Church 1950-92. From 1986 was a canon of St Paul's. Andrew Behan has researched this man: The Reverend Prebendary Clarke Edward Leighton Thomson was born on 25 April 1919 in ...
Born Wales. Studied at Oxford and entered the church. Married Elizabeth Pugh, the daughter of the family where he was working as tutor. Oxford Council Member and Canon of Llandaff Cathedral. H...
From Wesley's Chapel and from Kay: The Leys School was opened in Cambridge in 1875; just two years after non-Anglicans were admitted to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It was intended to...
Reigned: 1660 - 1685. Born at St James's Palace. The son of the beheaded Charles I, he was the king "restored" to the throne after the civil war. Married Catherine of Braganza in 1662 but she prod...
Sculptor. born Chelsea. Studied under EdouardLantéri. Served in WW1 initially in the artillery and then as a war artist. Died at 31 Queen's Gate. Three other notable works in London: firstly the G...
Experimental physicist, especially electro-magnetics (remember Faraday's Law?). Born in Newington Butts but brought up near Oxford Street. Trained as a bookbinder and here he was given tickets to s...
Born Jane Parker, a distant relative of Henry VIII, she became a lady-in-waiting to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and to quite a few of those that followed. Married Anne Boleyn’s brother, G...
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