"... was born. Merchant, traveller, philanthropist and author, his business took him to Spain and , and his journeyings furnished matter for sundry tomes when he retired with a fortune. But it is a public benefactor, particularly to the seafaring-folk, that his name is chiefly remembered, and and are his best memorials. Yet, when the very titles of his seventy publications are lost altogether, and his efforts to promote s and redress the trying lot of the ers are alike forgotten, one fact may keep his memory green—he was the first man to walk the streets of London under an umbrella! Another local philanthropist was , the originator of s, and the queer little house where the cobbler lived is still in Highbury Street. Not far off was the . It was afterwards removed to the now about on High Street."
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Rose Moutray Read
1870 – 1947
(1870–1947) was a British author, , and . Under the pseudonym DH Moutray Read, she wrote the popular Highways and Byways of Hampshire (1st edition 1908; 2nd edition 1919; 3rd edition 1923; 4th edition 1932). Esteemed for her book on the creation of her own garden, she was elected a Fellow of the . Moutray Read also published several papers in the journal of .
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