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Grizell was the eldest sister of another family of well-off Stoke Newington Quakers, of whom the best-known is Samuel Hoare Jr (1751–1825), one of the twelve founding members of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. She had been nurse and companion to her father, a merchant in the City of London, and then married Wilson Birkbeck ...
Stoke Newington is an area in the northwest part of the London Borough of Hackney, England.The area is five miles (eight kilometres) northeast of Charing Cross.The Manor of Stoke Newington gave its name to Stoke Newington, the ancient parish.
The Alexandra Theatre was a theatre located in the Stoke Newington district of London. Built in 1897, it was located at 65 and 67 Stoke Newington Road where the present-day Alexandra Court now stands. The theatre was demolished in the 1960s.
Stoke Newington's boundaries with the two neighbouring metropolitan boroughs within the County of London were as follows: [7] Islington to the west and south: the centres of Blackstock Road, Mountgrove Roads, Green Lanes, (diverting to take in Petherton Road and Leconfield Road) Matthias Road and Boleyn Road.
Stoke Newington had a Quaker presence from the early days of the Society of Friends.(George Fox stayed for a time in neighbouring Dalston, for example. [1]) From 1668 there was a Quaker girls' school in nearby Shacklewell, run first by Mary Stott and then Jane Bullock, “to Instruct younge lasses & maydens in whatsever thinges was civill & useful in ye creation” [2] By the early nineteenth ...
Frederick William Hall (3 December 1867 – 11 October 1933) was an English classical scholar and academic who served as President of St John's College, Oxford, from 18 December 1931 until his death in 1933. [1] [2] Hall was born in Stoke Newington, the only son of banker William Hall of the London and County Bank.
Stoke Newington was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex. It was both a civil parish , used for administrative purposes, and an ecclesiastical parish of the Church of England . Civil parish
The Parish of Stoke Newington (previously part of the Parliamentary Borough of Finsbury) No. 1 or Stamford Hill Ward of Hackney Parish; No. 2 or West Hackney Ward of Hackney Parish; The part of No. 5 or Hackney Ward of Hackney Parish north of the centres of Evering Road, Upper Clapton Road, and Southwold Road. [2]