The Parish Church of St John-at-Hampstead

Thomas HAYES

  • Born: 1751
  • Died: 1787
  • Grave/memorial: XE 015A

Surgeon, ‘blessed with native talents, emulous, diligent…..’ Park adds that he ‘raised himself, solely by his own merit, from the low situation of a pot boy’. The three triangles on his tombstone show that he was a member of the local benevolent club, the Philo-Investigists

Reference: Buried in Hampstead, Camden History Society 1986