The Reverend Richard Cranmer was Lord of the Manor of Mitcham Canons. A nearby road and green both bear his surname. He had died before 1831. From Merton: "The Canons House and estate remained in the ownership of the Cranmer family and their descendants the Simpsons until 1939..."
The Cranmers were descendants of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer who lived during the religious upheaval of the 16th century.
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Reverend Richard Cranmer
The inscription is badly deteriorated, so we have copied the inscription from...
Born Reading. 1628 became Bishop of London. 1633 became Archbishop of Canterbury. Supported Charles I, opposed many of the church practices that had come in during Queen Elizabeth's reign and perse...
The church moved here at the end of the 19th century from a Knightsbridge site, where the French Embassy now is. The British Library have a wonderful zoomable street-scape showing Knightsbridge w...
St. Michaels Church was erected in 1833 at the S. W. corner of Burleigh and Exeter Streets. In 1905 St Michael's parish was united to St Paul's Covent Garden, by an order in council, the church was...
The Caladonian Road plaque probably refers to the Thomas Burnitt mentioned as a speaker at a meeting following the laying of the foundation stone, on 18 May 1865, for the new Camden Town Primitive ...
From their website: YWCA was founded in 1855 by Miss Emma Robarts and The Hon Mrs Arthur Kinnaird. Miss Robarts started organising groups for young women who were coming to London for the first ti...
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