Born Malta, son of an army man. From his alma mater, the King's School Canterbury "From 1909 to 1916 he was Vicar of St Peter's Ealing and from 1916 until his death he was Vicar of St Peter's Eaton Square. In 1929 he took the additional duties of Rural Dean of Westminster and in 1934 was appointed a Prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral. During the war he served as a shelter warden and a firewatcher. He was killed during an enemy air raid when bombs hit St Peter's Church, Eaton Square."
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Rev. Austin Thompson
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St Peters Eaton Square - Austin Thompson
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William Thomas Du Boulay
Vicar of the church of St. Mary, The Boltons, Kensington. He served at the church between 1868 and 1909. Little more is known of him, except that under his tenure he rearranged the layout inside th...
1 memorial
Gregory Gunne
From Catholic Herald:The convent’s very existence fulfils the prophecy made in 1585 by Fr Gregory Gunne when, during his own trial, he rebuked an Elizabethan court for having sentenced St Edmund Ca...
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Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman
Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman was the first Archbishop of Westminster. Born at Seville, Spain, of an Irish father. Click on New Advent for more information. In the 1851 census he is sh...
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St Nicholas Deptford
A church has existed on the site since at least Saxon times. Work on the present building began in 1697 and was completed in 1714. It was virtually destroyed in an air-raid in World War II. The sku...
1 memorial
Rt. Revd. Bishop R. W. Stannard
Master of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners in 1973.
1 memorial
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