William Hones's Grave in Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington

'THE FAMILY GRAVE OFWILLIAM HONEWHO WAS BORN AT BATHTHE 3RD. OF JUNE A.D. 1780AND DIED AT TOTTENHAMTHE 6TH. OF NOVEMBER A.D. 1842'  William Hone was a writer and bookseller/publisher very much concerned with the injustices of the time and a strong advocate of political reform. His satirical writings against the government ensured that he would be prosecuted for treason, and his Frederick William Hackwood gives a fascinating account of his life in William Hone: His Life and Times (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912). His Wikipedia entry is unreliable: for instance, it states that Hone wrote a book about Elizabeth Fenning, who was wrongly hanged for poisoning her employers, whereas John Watkins in fact wrote the book which Hone edited and no doubt published.

Charles Dickens and Hones's illustrator George Cruickshank attended his funeral.

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William Hone: His Life and Times, by Frederick William Hackwood