Newington Green
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Newington Green is an open space in North London between Islington and Hackney. It gives its name to the surrounding area, roughly bounded by Ball's Pond Road to the south, Petherton Road to the west,
Newington Green looking northwest from Mildmay Park
King Henry VIII, who hunted in the area
The Unitarian church was built in 1708.
The New River in Clissold Park.
William Pennefather
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William Pennefather was an Irish Anglican cleric who spent most of his adult life in England. He was famous for his hymns and sermons, and also for missionary work with his wife Catherine Pennefather.
Newington Green
…knighthood and his estates and sentenced to life imprisonment. Mildmay was the base for a very influential missionary organisation founded by the Reverend William Pennefather, after he became vicar at St Jude’s, Mildmay (now St Jude & St Paul’s) in 1864. The organisation trained deaconesses for helping the poor, ultimately…
William Pennefather died 1873
Christ Church, Barnet- William was vicar here from 1852 to 1864.
Mildmay Park railway station
Wall monument in St Jude's, Mildmay Grove