John HINDLEY
- Born: 1753
- Died: 1807
- Grave/memorial: XG 001
Who under peculiar Disadvantages, which to common minds would have been a bar to any exertions, raised himself from all obscure situations of birth and fortune by his own industry and frugality to the enjoyment of a moderate competency’. Baines called it the quaintest of all the church’s memorials and noted that it was repaired [c.1880] by the vicar and Manley Hopkins [father of the poet]. According to this, only his ashes are buried here, a curiously early example of cremation.
Reference: Buried in Hampstead, Camden History Society 1986