Merchant and banker. Born in Willesley, then in Derbyshire but now in Leicestershire. One of the first directors of the Bank of England. Lord Mayor of London 1700-01. That was an exciting time for him. He married his second wife Mary Gunston in 1700, and the following year she inherited what became Abney House and Park.
For thirty-six years Dr Isaac Watts was kept by the Abneys as their house guest, easily beating Dr Samuel Johnson who managed only 16 years with the Thrales.
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Sir Thomas Abney
The quote "Ages unborn..." is presumably from one of Watts' hymns or psalms b...
First built in 1808, the barracks housed the Royal Marines. Rebuilt 1842-8. With the closing of Woolwich Dockyard the Woolwich Division of the Royal Marines was disbanded in 1869. The Royal Marine ...
The house dates from at least 1532 possibly much earlier. The plaque details its ownership by Henry VIII who used it as grand Hackney residence for prominent friends; William Herbert; and Edward de...
Politician and patron of the arts. MP for Radnor from 1711 to 1714, and for Cambridgeshire from 1722 until he succeeded his father in 1724, and entered the House of Lords as the Second Earl of Oxfo...
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