Swedish theologian and polymath. He travelled frequently in Europe and came to London a few times. Lodged in Wellclose Square and attended the nearby Swedish Church. On his last visit, in 1771, he lodged with a wig maker in Clerkenwell where he died and was buried at the Swedish Church but on the 140th anniversary of his death, in 1912/1913, when it was decided that the congregation would vacate the church, his body was moved to Uppsala Cathedral.
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Emanuel Swedenborg
{2 sides of the boarding around a tree carry painted text:} Emanuel Swedenbor...
William Gilson Humphry was born on 30 January 1815 in Sudbury, Suffolk, the eldest of the six children of William Wood Humphry (1787-1865) and Betsy Ann Humphry née Gilson (1790-1862). He was bapti...
Born Islington. Ecclesiastical historian and poet. At Pembroke College, Oxford, he became one of the ‘Birmingham Group’ along with William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. He was considered for Poe...
Born Suffolk. 1806 he enrolled in the Independent academy at Homerton, then 'near' London.  1812 converted from Calvinism to Unitarianism.  1817 called to the Unitarian, chapel in Parliament Court,...
Built in the 12 century. Destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt.
The synagogue community was founded in 1840 and moved to Upper Berkeley Street in 1870.
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