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Person    | Male  Born 12/12/1885  Died 15/12/1972

Tubby Clayton

Categories: Philanthropy, Religion

Tubby Clayton

C.of E. clergyman and founder of Toc H. Born Australia, but his family returned to England the next year so he was brought up here. While serving as an army chaplain in WW1 he created a soldiers club, Talbot House the first Toc H. In 1923 he was appointed to All Hallows by the Tower where he remained as vicar until 1963. 1933 he was a founder of the Tower Hill Improvement Trust. This became the spiritual centre of Toc H. Died at his home on Tower Hill.

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Tubby Clayton

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Tubby Clayton & Toc H

English Heritage Reverend P. T. B. 'Tubby' Clayton, 1885 - 1972, founder of T...

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Emperor Trajan statue

{On a steel plaque attached to the base:} Statue believed to be of the Roman ...

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Wakefield

The 'lamp of maintenance' above the bust is the symbol used by Toc H. This wh...

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Marylebone Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes

Marylebone Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes

Incorporated by royal charter in 1854, possibly on 7th April. Still operating in 1928.

Group, Philanthropy, Property, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Onyx Environmental Trust

Onyx Environmental Trust

We think this group is now (2015) called Veolia.

Group, Community / Clubs, Gardens / Agriculture, Philanthropy

1 memorial
King William IV Naval Asylum

King William IV Naval Asylum

Also known as the King William IV Cottages. Commissioned by Queen Adelaide widow of King William IV and designed by Philip Hardwick. They provided housing for twenty destitute widows and families o...

Building, Philanthropy

1 memorial
John Marshall

John Marshall

Native of Stamford in Lincolnshire.  A white-baker who lived in a mansion house in Axe Yard, Southwark (now Newcomen Street), where his father, also a white-baker had lived before him. Widowered an...

Person, Philanthropy

1 memorial
Nesta Lloyd

Nesta Lloyd

See the memorial page for all the information we have.

Person, Philanthropy

1 memorial