Several anti-slavery meetings were held in the Guildhall in the Market Square in 1792, 1814 and 1826.

Cloisters has memorials devoted to Thomas, John, Judith, Mary and Ann Jemima Sharp, family of Granville Sharp

He was a Pole of limited stature born in 1739. He was a talented violinist and guitarist who came to England and organized subscription concerts

In 1784 Stephen Kemble wrote a poem justifying The Slave Trade

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...