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...
In 1656 he founded almshouses in Palmer’s Passage for six poor old men and six poor old women together with a school for the education of twenty boys. Old maps show these almshouses running most of...
Founded and then served for 46 years as Honorary Secretary and Chaplain of the German Hospital and was described in "Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain, 1660-1914"Â as the "soul of the h...
The oldest church in the City, founded by the Saxon Abbey of Barking. Â Built on the site of a Roman building. Â Expanded and rebuilt several times. Â A nearby explosion in 1650 demolished the west to...
Instituted as Rector of Christ Church Spitalfields in 1857 and still in place in 1877. At some point he was rector of Finchley and Rural Dean of Highgate.  Married to Mary Anne Crofts. A man with t...
The 1865 Christian Witness and Congregational Magazine, Volume 1 reports that from September to October Raleigh opened an iron chapel in Croydon and a chapel in Maidstone. That publication also inc...
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