Born Brixton. In 1882 founded the Church Army, an evangelical organisation aimed at the poor in London and then during WW1 among the troops in France. Prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral. Known as "the Chief". Died at home in Woking. .
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Prebendary Wilson Carlile
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Prebendary Wilson Carlile
Prebendary Wilson Carlile, 1847 - 1942, founder of the Church Army, lived her...
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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...
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Lesnes Abbey
Pronounced Lez-ness. Founded by Richard de Lucy, as a penance for his role in the murder of Thomas Becket. It never grew to any great size, and was closed by Cardinal Wolsey under a licence to supp...
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Mrs Heywood Smith
Connected to the Salvation Army Citadel, Ronalds Road in 1890.  We think it's likely that this lady was wife to the Dr Heywood Smith who was one of the colleagues of W. T. Stead when he was accused...
1 memorial
St Michaels Bassishaw
Church first recorded in a document of 1196. Destroyed in the Great Fire, rebuilt by Wren (or his colleagues, at least) and, found to be unsafe, demolished in 1900.
1 memorial
Stewart D. Headlam
Stewart Duckworth Headlam was born on 12 January 1847 in Wavertree, Liverpool, Lancashire, the fourth of the five children of Thomas Duckworth Headlam (1806-1885) and Latitia Headlam née Simpson (1...
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