3-056-389 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. Charles Reed, M.P., the new chairman of the London School Board, 1873. Engraving from a photograph by Rockwood, of New York. 'Mr. Reed...got his first training in business at a woollen factory in Leeds...[and] is now senior partner in the firm of Messrs. Reed and Fox, type-founders, of Fann-street, Aldersgate...He is a deputy for the ward of Farringdon Within in the Common Council...As representative of the Corporation for the management of its Ulster estates and deputy-governor of the Irish Society, as a conservator of the river Thames, as chairman of the committee for the recovery of Bunhill-fields burial-ground and its preservation to the public use, as chairman of the Library committee, and a manager of the City of London School, he has earned the signal thanks of his fellow-citizens...He...has been, chairman of the London Missionary Society and one of the committee of the Bible Society...He has devoted some attention to literary pursuits and antiquarian studies...He has moreover written a history of the Plantation of Ulster in the reign of James I., and of the administration of the Irish Society...he is opposed to a purely secular scheme of education'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.