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
Charles Sumner, Bishop of Winchester
Charles Richard Sumner KG was a Church of England bishop. Consecrated Bishop of Winchester in 1827. In 1869 he resigned his seat, but continued to live at the official residence in Farnham until h...
1 memorial
Sebastian Newdigate
Monk at London Charterhouse. Newdigate was a personal friend of Henry VIII. The king visited him twice in prison but Newdigate refused to change his views. Executed at Tyburn.
1 memorial
St Dunstans, Stepney
Records of this church go back to AD 952. Until the 14th century it was the only church in east London. The existing 15th century building is the third on the site, though it was reclad in 1880s. T...
3 memorials
Bishop Mandell Creighton
Born Carlisle. His first career was as an historian. Bishop of London, 1897–1901.
2 memorials
Stratford Martyrs
The church website has done a very thorough job on the history not just of the memorial but the church and the area so we quote them here on the background to the martyrs: "In 1553 Queen Mary Tudor...
1 memorial
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