SPURQEON'S HOUSE AT COLCHESTER.
A tablet has been placed on Spnrgeon'a house at Colchester. It bears the inscription: "In this house lived, during boyhood, Charles Haddon Spurgeou, tho famous Baptist preacher. Bom at Kelvidon, lS3t: died 169?.." The opportunity has bcsil taken to put up several others also, one at cacli ot tho sites, of tho old gates of the town, one at "Tympcrley's," in Trinity Street, the one-time residence of Dr. William Gilberd, the father 6f electrical science and physician to Queen Elizabeth; and one on a house formerly the old "King's Head," in a room of which the officers of tho Royalist army surrendered after tho siego in IG-IS. All this has been done under the Deputy Mayorship of Mr. E. A. Blaxill, one of the most prominent Nonconformists in the town.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1104, 18 April 1911, Page 4
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134SPURQEON'S HOUSE AT COLCHESTER. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1104, 18 April 1911, Page 4
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