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New French Protestant Episcopal Church, Bloomsbury, 1845. Creator: Unknown

New French Protestant Episcopal Church, Bloomsbury, 1845. ...this newly-erected edifice, in Bloomsbury-street (late Plumtree-street, (St. Giles's), was consecrated, with the accustomed ceremonies, by the Lord Bishop of London. This church was originally established by King Charles II., in the year 1661, in the Savoy Palace, Strand; has been re-constructed on its present site by the descendants of French Protestant refugees, the ground being granted for that purpose by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. The new church has been built from the designs of Mr. Ambrose Poynter: it is in the early English style; the principal front has a large and lofty window, flanked by two smaller ones; and the gable is surmounted by an enriched cross. At the opposite end of the edifice is a low campanile, or bell-tower'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII

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Reverend Edward Noel Mellish VC, c1916, (c1920).. Creator: Unknown

Reverend Edward Noel Mellish VC, c1916, (c1920). Portrait of the Fighting Parson - British army chaplain Noel Mellish (1880-1962), was awarded the Victoria Cross for rescuing Wounded Men under Fire at St Eloi in Flanders during the First World War. Under continuous and heavy shell and machine-gun fire he brought in ten badly wounded men on the first day, seeming to bear a charmed life. On the second day the battalion to which he was attached was relieved, but he went back and brought in twelve more wounded men'. From "The Great World War: A History", Volume V, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]

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Edmund Burke, c1760, (c1884). Creator: Unknown

Edmund Burke, c1760, (c1884). Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Anglo-Irish author, orator and liberal conservative political theorist and philosopher, educated at Trinity College Dublin. Member of parliament (MP) in the House of Commans as a Whig 1766-1794 during reign of George III. From "Leaders of the Senate: A Biographical History of the Rise and Development of the British Constitution, Vol. I.", by Alexander Charles Ewald, F.S.A. [William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh & Berlin]

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