Cleveland Hall, London
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Cleveland Hall was a meeting hall in Cleveland Street, London that was a centre of the British secularist movement between 1861 and 1878, and that was then used for various purposes before becoming a
George Holyoake, a secularist lecturer who often spoke at the hall
The spiritualist Cora L.V. Tappan
Hugh Price Hughes, founder of the West London Methodist Mission
Cleveland Street today. The original street number 54 is now obfuscated by large modern developments. The Post Office Tower now occupies an entire block and is nominally number 60. The block south is nominally number 44 and is being redeveloped from its use as Middlesex Hospital. On the left-hand side of the street, the long-standing King & Queen public house saw the hall come and go. The Washington brigade of the Chartists met there in 1848. Over 100 years later radical
William Devonshire Saull
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William Devonshire Saull was an English wine merchant, who ploughed his profits into radical and socialist causes. A freethinker, he ran a fossil- and antiquities-based museum of evolution in London f
Cleveland Hall, London
…between 1861 and 1878, and that was then used for various purposes before becoming a Methodist meeting hall. Cleveland Hall was built with a legacy from William Devonshire Saull, an Owenite, and in 1861 replaced the John Street Institution as the London centre of freethought. The hall was controlled by its shareholders, and…
Saull's name on the lower section of the Reformers memorial, Kensal Green Cemetery