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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Sir Christopher Leaver, GBE DMus
Lord Mayor in 1981-2. Â Alderman on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994. Â A guest on Desert Island Discs in 1982 - at the picture source you can listen to his choices.
2 memorials
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
1 memorial
Sir John Wollaston
Born at Perton in Staffordshire. His name varies in spelling: Wollaston or Woolaston. In London, apprenticed to the Goldsmiths' Company from 1604 to 1611. Achieved great wealth in the City of Londo...
1 memorial
Sir Richard Browne
Parliamentarian army officer and Lord Mayor of London. Â Born London (according to the ODNB though the picture source disagrees). Â Died Essex.
1 memorial
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