Founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers).
Born Leicestershire. Died in a house near the Gracechurch Street meeting house. The exact location of his grave in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground is unknown.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
George Fox
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Quakers - garden
This unusual memorial is made out of slates and shaped to resemble a burial m...
Quakers - Memorial Buildings
To the left of this huge plaque there is a small, simple and extremely well-m...
Other Subjects
Charterhouse church
A chapel was first built here soon after 1348 by Walter de Manny, alongside a burial ground for victims of the Black Death.  In 1371 when the Charterhouse Priory was built here the chapel was inco...
1 memorial
Canon Richard Watson Dixon
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...
1 memorial
Suffragettes' Women's Hall
This 1893 map (extract here) shows a hall, Salisbury Hall, beside the pub (Morpeth Arms) set back behind a house on Old Ford Road. This 1870 map shows the hall labelled 'Bethal Chapel (Baptist)'. ...
Building, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, Religion
1 memorial
Ram Mohun Roy
Indian scholar and reformer. Born Bengal. Worked to abolish the Hindu tradition of sati, where a widow joins her husband on the funeral pyre. For his last three years he was the ambassador to Bri...
1 memorial
St John's Clerkenwell graveyard & garden
In 1714 John Michele gave the ground to St John’s Church in St John’s Square for use as a graveyard. About 100 years later Rev. William Dawson arranged that the church donate the graveyard as a pub...
2 memorials
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