Grew up in Wapping.  A spokesman for the Levellers and a colonel in the New Model Army.  Killed by a Royalist raiding party during the siege of Pontefract.  The Levellers arranged for his funeral, 14 November 1648, to also be a mass demonstration for their cause.
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Thomas Rainsborough
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Thomas Rainsborough
Thomas Rainsborough was buried in this churchyard on the 14th November 1648 a...
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W. Baker, Jnr.
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Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
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General James Wolfe
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