As Bishop of Durham, he was a controversial figure, who dined publicly with Unitarians and Roman Catholics, subscribed to the publication of the abolitionist Newcastle Unitarian Minister and abolit...

"This floor stone commemorates Dr Henry Evans Holder III. 'Sacred to the Memory of HENRY EVANS HOLDER. M.D. of the Island of Barbados who departed this life February 22nd 1817 Aged 36 Years.'"

Having been secularized the Parliamentarians in the Civil War incarcerated 3,000 Scottish prisoners in the Cathedral in 1650.

Reverand Gerald Valerian Wellesley was a Prebendary of the Cathedral & Rector of Bishop Wearmouth.

He was the son of Charles Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan, co-heir of his grandfather Hans Sloane’s estate in Chelsea. Charles lent £20,500 to a group to buy a 320-acre estate in Grenada, together with t...

This window commemorates Michael de Angelo, the City’s MP who supported abolition of the slave trade but lost his seat in 1802. There is no plaque mentioning this.

Commemorating Opposition to Rhodesia and Apartheid in South Africa

The Cathedral had a Dean and the other clergy, including Canons and Prebendaries made up the Chapter. One of the Dean’s had a daughter whose son Sheffield Neave (1799 - 1868) became a West Indian m...

Several clergy men received compensation in exchange of compensation package. Bishop Thomas Thurlow was directly associated with the slave trade and as such was one of the Bishops who sat on the So...

Charles William Vane Stewart exploited coal miners and his Irish tenants. His statue is in the marketplace in Durham city.

Bishop Joseph Butler (1692-1752) gave a sermon to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in February 1738-9 (earlier SPG, it was a high church missionary organisation of the...

The Durham Light Infantry has its origins in the 68th Foot formed in 1758, which became the Durham Regiment in 1782.