Person    | Male  Born 19/6/1819  Died 25/3/1881

Sir Charles Reed

Politician. Member of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Director and Trustee of the original Abney Park Cemetery Joint Stock Company, Chairman of the Bunhill Fields Preservation Committee, associate of George Peabody. One of the managers of the 1873-75 changes at Aske’s Hospital. Died at Earlsmead, Page Green, Tottenham High Road. Buried Abney Park Cemetery.

2025: We were contacted by Tom Welsh (author of Fake Heritage) initially about Thomas Hugo.  Tom added: “Charles Reed sparred with Hugo over the Shadwell Shams. Reed tried to prove they were fakes, and Hugo challenged his evidence (reference ‘Fake Heritage’, chapter 8). Reed used an agent provocateur to try to discredit the mud-rakers suspected of forging lead pilgrim badges, but his methods were very dubious and really not successful. Reed's part in this ought to be better known.”

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Sir Charles Reed

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Aske's Hospital - right - 1875

This plaque summarises the history of the Hospital and celebrates the opening...

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Bunhill burial ground - 3 & 4

It would be nice if the two Lord Mayor Lawrences were related but we can't co...

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City of Manchester Heritage

City of Manchester Heritage

We can find no trace of this on-line.

Group, History

1 memorial
Memorial to the Women of World War II

Memorial to the Women of World War II

A York-based group of volunteers set up to raise funds for the memorial in Whitehall.

Group, Benefactor, History

1 memorial
UCL Institute of Archaeology

UCL Institute of Archaeology

75th anniversary of the UCL Institute of Archaeology in 2012. From the picture source website: Thanks to his {Mortimer Wheeler's} efforts and those of his wife, Tessa Verney Wheeler, his ambitions...

Group, Education, History

1 memorial
Greenwich Historical Society

Greenwich Historical Society

From the Picture source: "The Greenwich Historical Society began life as the Greenwich Antiquarian Society in 1905, merging with the Lewisham Society in 1919 to become the Greenwich and Lewisham An...

Group, Community / Clubs, History

1 memorial

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Jack Cornwell V.C. - E10

Jack Cornwell V.C. - E10

E10, Clyde Place, 1 - 31

Jack Cornwell V.C.  1900 - 1916 Adjacent to this site stood Clyde Cottage birthplace of John Travers Cornwell the youngest recipient of t...

War dead | WW1
1 subject commemorated, 1 creator