Born Warwickshire. Bishop of Chester 1828 - 48 when he was elevated to Archbishop of Canterbury. Brother to Charles Sumner, Bishop of Winchester. Died at his summer residence in Croydon, Addington Palace.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Archbishop John Bird Sumner
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Archbishop Sumner's Memorial Schools
These three men must have been the vicars at St Philips, at the years given.
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John Owen, DD
Church leader. Â Born Oxfordshire. Â Chaplain to Cromwell. Â Died Ealing. Â Buried in Bunhill burial ground.
1 memorial
James Hutton
A minister in the Moravian church and the Aldersgate bookseller of John Wesley's Journal. He convened the meeting at which John Wesley's second conversion took place.
1 memorial
James Hudson Taylor
Born Barnsley, Yorkshire. Died Changsha, Hunan, China (340 miles north of Canton), where he was buried. English missionary to China. Founded the China Inland Mission in 1865 which at his death in...
1 memorial
John Whitgift
Elizabeth I's last Archbishop of Canterbury. The palace used as a summer retreat by the Archbishops of Canterbury was in Croydon and here in 1596 Whitgift founded an eponymous school. Memorable da...
2 memorials
Henry Montgomery Campbell, Bishop of London
Bishop of London 1956 - 61. His Wikipedia page has many examples of his sharp wit. Â Died Westminster Hospital.
1 memorial
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