Notable People
The Christian theologian John Thomas, founder of the Christadelphian movement, was born in Hoxton Square in 1805, and in 1810 the square was home to Peter Durand, who filed the first English patent for the process of tinning food.
One of Hoxton Square's 18th-century residents, the Revd John Newton, composed the popular hymn "Amazing Grace". The parish church of St John's Hoxton is nearby.
James Parkinson (1755–1824), the physician and author of An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, the subject of which is now known as Parkinson's disease, was in practice at 1 Hoxton Square, which is commemorated with a blue plaque on the site.
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