Vicar of St Mary of Eton, the Eton Mission, appointed in 1889 and, finding that boys playing football in Victoria Park was problematic, he set in motion the acquisition of 337 acres of Hackney Marshes in 1890 as a perpetual open space for the people of London. A member of the London Playing Fields Society.
1902-17 we find references to him in the Cheveley/Cambridge area. and in 1920 he's in Suffolk.
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Rev. E. K. Douglas
In remembrance of the Rev. E. K. Douglas, Vicar of S. Mary of Eton, The Eton ...
2017 the church was planning to redevelop the site and their Public Consultation document gives the history of the site with some interesting images and maps. The maps there suggest that the footpr...
A Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. Known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious G...
Architect and prolific writer of church hymns (nearly 2000!). Born Wapping. Died Homerton where he was a church warden at St. Barnabas.
Vicar-apostolic of the London District. Died Old Gloucester Street.
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