John Glyde

Donated photographs of John Glyde are featured here. Ed Harvell, in 2021 provided crisper and superbly detailed images of his forebear.

John Glyde lived at this address and is recognised as the foremost 19th century historian of Ipswich and Suffolk, the author of books which are still standard reference works on the social and economic aspects of the town and county.

A radical thinker, he was involved in many organisations working for social and cultural improvements of Ipswich, including the founding of Free Library for the town.

His bequest of books and manuscripts to the Ipswich Corporation in 1905 is now in the Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich.

During his working life he was a bookseller, an agent for domestic servants and a registrar of marriages.

Among the first tranche of blue plaques, this was unveiled in 2001.