Businessman and historian. Born 25 Tottenham Place. 1864 joined A & F Pears as a bookkeeper and then married F. Pears's eldest daughter the next year.
Historian of Hampstead, author of the 3 volume 1912 'Annuls of Hampstead'. Chairman in Pears, the soap manufacturers. Referred to as "the father of modern advertising" he was responsible for using the Bubbles picture in a Pears advertising campaign. The picture source website gives the details.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Thomas. J. Barratt
On this site stood the house Bell Moor where the historian of Hampstead, Thom...
The Ivy, opened by Abele Giandolini, as an unlicensed Italian cafe in 1917 in a building on the same site. Famous as a theatrical-celebrities haunt, possibly due to its late closing time of near-mi...
Funeral directors in South London and Kent. Formerly a family firm, now owned by Dignity.
This almost certainly is the Leyton Urban District Ratepayers Association, who erected other plaques in the area. It had two candidates elected to the Urban District Council in 1904, and It underto...
