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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Other Subjects

Musical Heritage

Musical Heritage

Merged with the Heritage Foundation.

Group, History, Music / songs

5 memorials
Daniel Neal, MA

Daniel Neal, MA

Historian.  Born London.  Buried in Bunhill burial ground.

Person, History

1 memorial
Valeria Oliveira

Valeria Oliveira

One of a list of 26 researchers involved in researching Hester Leggatt's background.

Person, History

1 memorial
Thomas Arnold

Thomas Arnold

Headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841.  Born Isle of Wight.  Father of Matthew Arnold, great grandfather of Aldous and Julian Huxley.  Died at Rugby.

Person, Education, History

1 memorial
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay

Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay

Historian, essayist, poet.  Born Leicestershire but brought up in the Clapham home.  Spent four years (1834 - 8) as an administrator in India, during which he showed little interest in Indian cultu...

Person, History, Poetry, Politics & Administration, India

4 memorials

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Quintin Hogg at the Poly

W1, Regent Street, 309, University of Westminster

Formerly The (Regent Street) Polytechnic. The plaque for the first cinema is inside the hall and is not normally accessible except when t...

2 subjects commemorated
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FCO - E unknown

SW1, Horse Guards Road, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The Foreign Office was completed in 1873 to the 1861 designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott, with Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt for the St James’s...