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...
Sir John Poultney or de Pulteney was in the Drapers' Company, Lord Mayor 3 times in the period 1330-6, and had his house on the west of what is now Laurence Pountney Hill. He founded Corpus Christ...
Church recorded since the 13th century. Destroyed in the Great Fire 1666, rebuilt by Wren, demolished 1841 so that Threadneedle Street could be widened.
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