Person    | Male  Born 22/1/1828  Died 22/8/1909

Rev. Dawson Burns

Categories: Religion

Rev. Dawson Burns

Baptist minister and lifelong temperance activist. Born Southwark to Jabez Burns also a Baptist minister and temperance advocate from 1836. Died Battersea.

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Rev. Dawson Burns

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Chelsea Temperance Society - McCurrey

To the memory of James & Margaret McCurrey, early & devoted workers i...

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Jabez West fountain

This is a very unusual monument for the time, being in honour of a working man.

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Other Subjects

Suffragettes' Women's Hall

Suffragettes' Women's Hall

This 1893 map (extract here) shows a hall, Salisbury Hall, beside the pub (Morpeth Arms) set back behind a house on Old Ford Road.  This 1870 map shows the hall labelled 'Bethal Chapel (Baptist)'. ...

Building, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, Religion

1 memorial
James Walworth

James Walworth

Monk at London Charterhouse. Exiled to the Charterhouse in Hull and then executed in York.

Person, Execution, Religion

1 memorial
Simon of Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury

Simon of Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury

Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England.  In the latter role he was associated with the taxes against which the Peasants Revolted and so, along with Robert Hales, he was dragged fro...

Person, Execution, Politics & Administration, Religion

1 memorial
The Reverend Reginald Herman Tribe

The Reverend Reginald Herman Tribe

Reginald Herman Tribe was born on 26 May 1881 in Chatham, Kent, the eldest of the four children of Herman Thomas Bedingfield Tribe (1855-1894) and Alice Mary Tribe, née Holder (b. c1860). His birth...

Person, Armed Forces, Medicine, Religion

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
West London Synagogue

West London Synagogue

The synagogue community was founded in 1840 and moved to Upper Berkeley Street in 1870.

Building, Religion

3 memorials

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Sir Cecil Beaton

Sir Cecil Beaton

Photographer, painter, interior designer and designer for stage and screen. Born 21 Langland Gardens, Hampstead. Excelling in a number of art forms he had equally catholic tastes in his affairs, wi...

Person, Cinema, Craft / Design, Photography, Seriously Famous, Theatre

3 memorials
Sir Peter Medawar

Sir Peter Medawar

OM, FRS, Nobel Laureate.   Born Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  His pioneering wartime research on tissue grafting won him the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1960.  Not a fan of psychoanalysis - ...

Person, Medicine, Brazil

2 memorials
Wallace Cheesman

Wallace Cheesman

N5, Highbury Grange, 8

Wallace Bligh Cheesman, 1865 - 1947, founder of the Fawcett Association, lived here 1926 - 1927. London Borough of Islington Historic House

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Queen's Tower - IC

Queen's Tower - IC

SW7, Imperial College Road, Queen's Tower

The stone was laid only 14 days into her 51st year so we're taking this as a late commemoration of her Golden Jubilee. And the remaining...

3 subjects commemorated, 2 creators