10 Notable People Who Lived in Cheyne Walk, London

4 George Eliot the novelist spent the last three weeks of her life here

10 David Lloyd George the Welsh prime minister

12 Ralph Vaughan Williams the composer 1905-1928 who wrote symphonies there

13 Bertrand Russell the mathematician and philosopher in 1902

16 Dante Gabriel Rossetti the artist 1860-1882. There is a staute nearby.

21 James Mcneill Whistler the artist 1890–92. (He also lived in 72 (until his death there in 1903), 96 (1866–1878) and 101 (1863))

27 Bram Stoker the writer

93 Elizabeth Gaskell the novelist was born here

104 Hilaire Beloc the writer

119 J M W Turner the artist died here in 1851

(Also Thomas Caryle, I K Brunel, Sol Campbell, various members of The Rolling Stones, etc)

The Welsh Wizard

 

10 Welsh people not born in Wales

1. David Lloyd-George politician (Manchester)
2. Dai Jones Llanilar TV presenter (London)
3. Robert Earnshaw footballer (Zambia)
4. Ashley Williams footballer (Germany)
5. Alexander Cordell [pen name of George Alexander Graber] author (Sri Lanka)
6. Saunders Lewis playwright and campaigner (Wallasey)
7. George North rugby player (King's Lynn)
8. Jonathan "Fox" Davies rugny player (Solihull)
9. Windsor Davies actor (London)
10. Helen Morgan model (Walsall)

10 well known people who heard Spurgeon preach

1. Lord John Russell, Prime minister 1846-1852, 1865/66

2. William Gladstone, Prime minister 1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886, 1892-1894

In January 1882 Gladstone requested a reserved seat in the Tabernacle to hear his friend Spurgeon preach. He arrived early with his son and sat in the vestry with Spurgeon until the service. Following the visit, the PM’s enemies criticised him as an Anglican for visiting a Dissenting Chapel. This did not deter Gladstone from inviting Spurgeon, on several occasions, to Downing Street for breakfast or lunch. The two split politically in 1886 over giving Home Rule to Ireland.

3. John Ruskin the art critic

Ruskin and Spurgeon shared social concerns and were firm friends. Ruskin regularly attended Spurgeon’s Surrey Gardens Music Hall services, and when Spurgeon was ill he visited him with gifts of pictures. Ruskin gave Spurgeon a complete set of his Modern Painters which the preacher annotated and frequently quoted. Letters and visits were exchanged over the years, and when The Metropolitan Tabernacle was being built, Ruskin contributed 100 guineas, a considerable sum in those days.

4. George Eliot the female novelist

5. Matthew Arnold the poet and cultural commentator (who mentions Spurgeon several times in his Culture and Anarchy)

6. Queen Victoria (in disguise, allegedly)

7. Lord Shaftesbury the political reformer

8. David Livingstone the missionary and explorer 

9. H H Asquith MP (Later Prime minister)

10. David Lloyd-George (later Prime-minister) in 1884 and 1888