Plaque

Gustav Holst’s plaque is located at the University of Reading, London Road Campus mounted on a pillar in the Great Hall.

Edith Morley studied at the Oxford Honour School of English and English Literature. She achieved a first class in her examination in 1899.

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was one of the leading poets of the First World War and a soldier, killed a week before the signing of the Armistice that ended the First World War.

In the 1860s George William and Alfred joined the family firm of Huntley and Palmers as unpaid clerks at the age of sixteen.

Born in Reading, after a long career with the local police, Roy founded and was the chairman of Thames Valley Cleaning Contractors, Reading.

Jane Austen’s plaque is sited in a small, railed and locked garden, behind the Abbey Gateway in Reading.

Buckler Engineering occupying 67 Caversham Road between 1939 and 1965. It was here, in 1947, that Derek Buckler designed and built his first car featuring an innovative spaceframe chassis.

Dominic Barberi was an Italian theologian and Passionist priest who was prominent in spreading Catholicism in England.

Annie Phoebe Ellen Blackall started work at Reading Post Office in 1901 aged 13 and quickly became a trade union activist.

Joseph Huntley was born in 1775 into a Gloucestershire Quaker family. The name “Huntley and Palmers Biscuits” is well known throughout world.