Contemporary Review, September 1st, 1993
A special ceremony to honor the memory of General James Edward Oglethorpe, the founder of the colony of Georgia, to be held on Oct 10, 1993 at the Victorian parish church of All Saints in Cranham, Essex, will be another example of the special ties binding Britain and the US. General Oglethorpe, however, never considered his American outpost as his home and returned to England where he died in 1785 at the age of 88. He was buried at the old parish church of All Saints in Cranham. His accomplishments and memory faded in his own country but was kept alive in America with the founding of the Oglet...
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