Has a strong historical connection with the abolitionist movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. Rev John Newton, a slave-trader turned preacher and abolitionist, was rector 1780 – 1807. has an informative post about this church and its rector.
2019: This church is on Historic England's register of .
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
St Mary Woolnoth
This sculpture, 'Gilt of Cain', was unveiled by Bishop Tutu in commemoration ...
Slavery abolitionist. Born in Clinton, Georgia. She and her husband William were enslaved and escaped to the north of America. Although born of mixed-race parents she was very light skinned and, dr...
Native American daughter of an Algonquian chief; birth date approximate. According to colonist John Smith, when he was being held captive by her tribe the 11-year old Pocahontas saved his life by b...
Lord Chancellor. Â 1st Earl of Eldon. Opposed both the abolition of the slave trade and Catholic emancipation.
Actor. Born Ira Frederick Aldridge in New York City (his date of birth is approximate). He started his acting career with the African Company in the early 1820s, but faced with racial discriminatio...
The Quakers list a Henry Sterry born 1803 in the parish of St George the Martyr, Southwark and a Henry Sterry (1803-1869) was included in the group portrait of 'The Anti-Slavery Society Convention ...
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