JP, chairman of the Hornsey School and Hornsey Local Board. Active in the Poor Schools movement, he was an early campaigner for the education and welfare of children. He also led the campaign to save nearby Highgate Wood. This was given much space in The Times and The Standard newspapers. This led to the then owners, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, offering the wood (then called Gravel Pit Wood) to the Corporation of London as a gift in February 1885. This offer was accepted in 1886 and the wood was dedicated as "an open space for ever" on October 30 at a ceremony led by Sir John Staples, Lord Mayor of London. He similarly led the fight to save Queen's Wood.
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Henry Reader Williams
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Clock Tower centenary
Planted on 25th June 1995 to celebrate the spirit and vitality of the childre...
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Patience Ward
Merchant and early Whig politician. He was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1680. Named Patience by a father disappointed that he was not a girl (now, that's unusual). From Wikipedia: "The extreme...
1 memorial
Sir William McArthur
Born Ireland, brother to Alexander. Moved his drapery business to London in 1857. Liberal MP 1868-85. Lord Mayor of London 1880-1. Supported a Methodist College in Ireland.
1 memorial
Sir George Robert Tyler
Lord Mayor 1893-4. According to Wikipedia he so impressed the Belgians during a state visit that they named a street in Antwerp in his honour as 'Rue lord mayor Tyler' but GoogleMaps knows nothing...
1 memorial
Sir Henry Knight
Henry Edmund Knight was born in St Marylebone. 1882-3 the Lord Mayor of London. Sources: Wikitree, Grogono.
1 memorial
1 memorial
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Sheriff Pauline Halliday
Pauline Ann Halliday OBE, Sheriff (1999-2000), the first female non-aldermanic Sheriff of the city of London.
1 memorial
Tubby Clayton
C.of E. clergyman and founder of Toc H. Born Australia, but his family returned to England the next year so he was brought up here. While serving as an army chaplain in WW1 he created a soldiers cl...
3 memorials
Sir Clarendon Hyde
Sir Clarendon Hyde, the deputy chairman of the Metropolitan Railway Company in 1920.
1 memorial
Ali Mohammed Abbas
WC1, Tavistock Square, 33
Erected by Camden Borough Council Ali Mohammed Abbas, 1922 - 1979, barrister and one of the founders of Pakistan, lived here, 1945 - 1979.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Evans & Raj
W5, Ealing Green
From the BBC report of the deaths: "...the first Nato fatalities since the alliance began peacekeeping duties in Kosovo. Gurkhas were am...
War dead | Other war
2 subjects commemorated
2 subjects commemorated
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