Friend of China, Enemy of Oppression; Augustus Frederick Lindley (1840-1871) Kensal Green Cemetery

The epitaph on the grave of Augustus Frederick Lindley, in Kensal Green Cemetery, notes that he was a friend of China and an enemy of oppression. Although Lindley died in March 1873, the headstone is relatively modern, a rough-hewn pink granite slab bearing the signature of local stonemasons J.S. Farley but paid for by a research association of Beijing based academic historians, and unveiled in…