In memoriam
Newman Hall, D.D.
Homes for the aged, given by his widow.
Opposite is Newman Hall's former home.
NW3, Hampstead Square, 8
On her death in 1922, Harriet Hall's will showed that she had bequeathed nos 7, 8 and 9 Hampstead Square as almshouses for pensioners. 2023: the charity the still exists, but we doubt these houses are still almshouses.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Newman Hall
Eldest daughter of Edward Knipe, of Water Newton, Huntingdonshire. Â Married N...
Non-conformist minister and hymn writer. Born Maidstone, Kent as Christopher ...
L.C.C. Algernon Charles Swinburne, (1837-1909), -poet-, and his friend, Theodore Watts-Dunton, (1832-1914), poet-novelist-critic, lived a...
We understand that at least 13 of these names are also on the memorial cross at the United Reform Church.
English Heritage Sydney Monckton Copeman, 1862-1947, immunologist and developer of smallpox vaccine, lived here.
Following a 2016 campaign another memorial was erected nearby to commemorate all those Camberwell citizens lost in WW1.
Our photograph of the Lorraine Wilson plaque was taken before the foliage started obscuring it.
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