replaced an earlier chapel in Mosley Street. The Welsh Baptist Chapel, on Upper Brook Street, was designed in the early 19th century by Sir Charles Barry, who designed the Palace of Westminster shortly afterwards, and in Greenheys there was a German Protestant Church in Wright Street (ca. 1871). The Salvation Army's Manchester I corps is based at Manchester Temple, Grosvenor Street. It was founded in 1879 and a modern Salvation Army building stands on the site of the original one, and is called Manchester Central. There are two mosques in Chorlton-on-Medlock, the Salimiya Mosque and the Islamic Academy of Manchester, Upper Brook Street (in the building of the former Welsh Baptist Chapel). The former church of St Ambrose was used by the University of Manchester as an Islamic prayer room for several years. There are prayer rooms at the University of Manchester and at the Manchester Metropolitan University in Oxford Road. Notable people See also List of people from Manchester 19th century William Worby Beaumont (1848–1929), automotive engineer and inventor Maud Boyd (1867–1929), actress and operatic singer James Braid 1795-1860, Scottish born surgeon and hypnotist lived and died at 212 Oxford Street (on the exact site of the quadrangle of Manchester University). Walter Arthur Copinger, lawyer and scholar, lived in Greenheys Thomas De Quincey, writer, also lived at Greenheys: he was born at Cross Street, Manchester Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German social scientist and philosopher, for a time; the site of his lodging is commemorated by a plaque on Aberdeen House, Whitworth Park Halls of Residence. Elizabeth Gaskell lived in a house at 84, Plymouth Grove for the last 15 years of her life William Gaskell, Nonconformist minister and writer, husband of Elizabeth Gaskell David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister, was born here in 1863 but his family soon returned to Wales George Gissing 1857–1903, writer, lived on Grafton Street when he was a student at Owens College in 1876. Charles Hallé, musician, lived at Greenheys for a time Alfred Lucas, analytical chemist, involved in the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb Lilly Maxwell, first woman to vote in Britain after the Reform Act 1832, at the Chorlton Town Hall in 1868 Samuel Mendel businessman, later built Manley Hall. John Owens the merchant (after whom Owens College was named) lived in Nelson Street. Robert Angus Smith, Scottish chemist, had his laboratory in Grosvenor Square. Lily Elsie, noted Edwardian stage actress, singer, spent part