Our photo of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle officiating at the church's opening comes from a previous incarnation (appropriate expression?) of the Kingston Spiritualist Church website. Now, 2020, there is a but without the photo.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Kingston Spiritualist Church
This stone was laid by Miss A. Welbelove, Mr J. Welbelove, April 23rd 1927.
This stone was laid by Mr & Mrs J. W. Humphries President & Secretary.
We've heard it said that no one ever puts up a memorial to a committee. Perha...
This is the first reference to the 'angel world' that we've recorded.
Church. Originally a small chapel built outside the walls of Barking Abbey. Â Altered and enlarged in the 15th and 16th centuries. Captain Cook was married here in 1762.
Originally called Bessborough House, it was built by William Ponsonby in the 1760s. It was sold to the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits) in 1861 and renamed Manresa House after the town in Spain where...
In the south-east corner of Cornhill and Gracechurch Street. Â A medieval church on the highest point of the City of London. Â The legend about its origin given on the Cornhill Insurance door is from...
Anti-slavery campaigner. Â Born St James Street, Piccadilly but brought up in Romford. Â 1769 went to work in Bengal where he was one of the first to learn a number of the local languages. Â Like many...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion, Indian Sub-continent
Chancellor, Archbishop and Martyr. Born Cheapside of French parents. son of Gilbert Becket, mercer. Archbishop of Canterbury, 1162 to his death. Assassinated after his erstwhile friend, Henry II, d...
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