Choir-master and hymn-writer. Born Kidderminster. Died at home in Pimlico.
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Revd. Thomas Helmore
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Chauncy Hare Townshend Schools
The Chauncy Hare Townshend Schools The Baroness Burdett-Coutts, the Revd. Tho...
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Eton Boating Song
Written by William Johnson Cory. First performed in 1863, the first verse goes:. . . . Jolly boating weather, And a hay harvest breeze, Blade on the feather, Shade off the trees,...
1 memorial
Rev. John Newton
A slave-trader turned preacher and abolitionist. Born Wapping. Began his ecclesiastical career at Olney in Buckinghamshire where he wrote the words to 'Amazing Grace' and published the hymn in a ...
1 memorial
Susan Daniel
Opera singer. Born London. She continues with an international career, in spite of suffering twice from cancer.
1 memorial
W. H. Whitaker
Student of Trinity College of Music, killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sammy Davis Jnr
Born Harlem in New York City into a show-biz family. Hit the big-time in 1951. Lost his left eye in a car crash in 1954. Member of Sinatra's Rat Pack. In 1967 on TV he greeted Frank's daughter,...
Person, Cinema, Dance, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, Theatre, USA
1 memorial
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