Spitalfields

Chapter 2 William Allen, Fellow of the Royal Society Born August 29, 1770 Died December 30, 1843 William Allen, the eminent chemist, was born in London.

His father was a silk manufacturer in Spitalfields and a member of the Society of Friends.

Having at an early period shown a predilection for chemical and other pursuits connected with medicine, William was placed in the establishment of Mr. Joseph Gurney Bevan in Plough Court, Lombard Street, where he acquired a practical knowledge of chemistry.

He eventually succeeded to the business which he carried on in connection with Mr. Luke Howard and obtained great reputation as a pharmaceutical chemist.

Recorded by Mike Wong.

Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain, living in the years 1807-8, by William Walker, Jr.

Chapter 17 Peter Doland Born February 2, 1731 Died July 2, 1820 Peter Doland, the subject of the present memoir, was the eldest son of John Doland, the celebrated inventor of the achromatic refracting telescope, who, during the greater portion of his life, was engaged in the business of a silk manufacturer in Stuart Street, Spitalfields.

Here Peter Doland was born and spent the early portion of his life.

Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the most remarkable and misunderstood women of even her remarkable day, was born in April 1759, in or near London, of parents of whose ancestors little is known.

Her father, son of a Spitalfields manufacturer, possessed an adequate fortune for his position.

Her mother was of Irish family.

They had six children, of whom Mary was the second.

In this, you know, this is why he'll have like some different fact or some little detail.

As mentioned earlier, you know, Christchurch, Spitalfields, and he goes through the architecture of all the buildings, the layout of... of London, you know, like he, it's the whole thing where he, it's a, that's a cult idea that the locations of the murders were somehow significant in some sort of, you know, maybe creating some sort of significant sign or something, you know, there's, there's so many different things that happen once you start exploring like madness and conspiracies and, murders from 100 years ago you know

but

uh so one of the things i i like is just that it it influences so many different things right like so many people are aware like i said the the conspiracy that it was the queen's doctor right or uh in this in this one he he kind of creates like a bit of uh not quite a romance, right, between the detective, Detective Frederick Aberline, who was the actual detective, and one of the victims, right? And this is the other thing in From Hell is that he changes the end, right? He changes the ending, like...

Mary Wollstonecraft was born on the twenty-seventh of April, seventeen fifty-nine.

Her father, a quick-tempered and unsettled man capable of beating wife or child or dog, was the son of a manufacturer who made money in Spitalfields when Spitalfields was prosperous.

Her mother was a rigorous Irish woman of the Dixons of Ballyshannon.

Edward John Wollstonecraft, of whose children, besides Mary, the second child, three sons, and two daughters lived to be men and women, in course of the got rid of about ten thousand pounds, which had been left him by his father.

Expensive newspaper coverage bestowed widespread and enduring international notoriety on the Ripper, and the legend solidified.

A police investigation into a series of 11 brutal murders committed in Whitechapel and Spitalfields between 1888 and 1891, because remember, they said that.

He potentially could have done six other crimes, but they were never able to really pin that on him.

They say he was unable to connect all of the killings conclusively to the murders of the person who was doing them in 1888, so the five women.