Robert Higham in Hyde, Greater Manchester

'In

Ever-Loving

Memory of

Robert Higham, J.P.

of Windsor Bank, Hyde,

Editor and joint proprietor

of the

North Cheshire Herald,

for upwards of 40 years,

who died Feb^r. 17^th 1905,

aged 66 years.'

 

Strange how I missed this in Hyde Cemetery the first time round. Many local writers were published in the North Cheshire Herald, which for a large number of them was a literary launching pad leading to individual publications. George Booth's side of the monument is here.