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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Reverend George Augustus Mayo How
Prebendary of St Paul's, Rural Dean of Stepney and Vicar of Bromley St Leonard for twenty years. We learn from his obituary in the Guardian of 1 March 1893 that, apart from his first 6 months and ...
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Robert Wedderburn
Wikipedia tells the sorry story of this man. Born to a West African slave woman in Jamaica, his father, James Wedderburn, being a Scottish doctor and plantation owner, who had children by several ...
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Pete Broadbent
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 sayin...
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The Very Reverend Alan Brunskill Webster, KVCO
Dean of St Paul's Cathedral from 1978 to 1987 and before that Dean of Norwich for eight years. His Wikipedia page and his Telegraph obituary give much information about this man.
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John Bunyan
Born Elstow, Bedfordshire. A tinker by trade he became a travelling preacher. Unlicensed he was imprisoned 1660-1672. Wrote The Pilgrim's Progress. Died of a fever at Snow Hill, Holborn and is buri...
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