Gorsuch Street, E2

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Named after Thomas Talbot Gorsuch, surgeon and local benefactor, who in 1820 left £9 per year for the minister and churchwardens of St Leonards parish to tend to the grave of his friend John Olney, with the rest of the money to be distributed to the poor of Shoreditch.

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