Alexander Cruden bronze plaque


Connection to This Location
# Alexander Cruden at 45 Camden Passage Standing before this modest address in Islington, you're standing at the final home of one of the eighteenth century's most remarkable scholars—a place where Alexander Cruden spent his last years compiling the Bible Concordance, a work so meticulous and compr...
Location
45 Camden Passage, Islington, N1
Inscription
Alexander Cruden 1690-1770 Humanist scholar and intellectual. Born Aberdeen, educated Marischal College, came to London 1719 as tutor, appointed Book Seller to Queen Caroline in 1737, compiled the Concordance to the Bible, died here in Camden Passage, November 1st. 'whom niether infirmity nor neglect could debase' Nelson 1811