Baptist minister and lifelong temperance activist. Born Southwark to Jabez Burns also a Baptist minister and temperance advocate from 1836. Died Battersea.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Rev. Dawson Burns
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Chelsea Temperance Society - McCurrey
To the memory of James & Margaret McCurrey, early & devoted workers i...
Jabez West fountain
This is a very unusual monument for the time, being in honour of a working man.
Other Subjects
Thomas Green
Monk at London Charterhouse. Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
1 memorial
Thomas Reeding
Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
1 memorial
St Mary’s church, Greenwich
One of architect George Basevi's early commissions - he was brought up in Greenwich. Demolished in 1935.  To us the tower seems out of proportion to the pedimented portico. Â
1 memorial
1 memorial
Hospital of St Anthony
Henry III granted this site to the brotherhood of St. Anthony of Vienna to set up a hospital, which over time consisted of almshouses for the poor, a church and a school. After the dissolution of t...
1 memorial
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