Baptist minister and lifelong temperance activist. Born Southwark to Jabez Burns also a Baptist minister and temperance advocate from 1836. Died Battersea.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Rev. Dawson Burns
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Chelsea Temperance Society - McCurrey
To the memory of James & Margaret McCurrey, early & devoted workers i...
Jabez West fountain
This is a very unusual monument for the time, being in honour of a working man.
Other Subjects
James Hutton
A minister in the Moravian church and the Aldersgate bookseller of John Wesley's Journal. He convened the meeting at which John Wesley's second conversion took place.
1 memorial
Rodney Smith
Evangelist. Born in a gipsy tent in Epping Forest, Wanstead. He began to hawk clothes pegs and tinware made by his father and became known as 'The Singing Gipsy Boy' because of his eagerness to sin...
1 memorial
Vavasor Powell
Non-conformist preacher. Born Radnorshire, Wales. Buried in Bunhill burial ground.
1 memorial
Thomas Bowyer
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
1 memorial
Rev. Allen T. Edwards
1835 vicar of All Saints South Lambeth. In the 1910 "A history of the British and Foreign Bible Society" by William Canton, Edwards is named as the District Secretary for "Middlesex and places wit...
1 memorial
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