Edward Ladd Betts
The name Edward Ladd Betts is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in St Peter and St Paul church burial ground, Aylesford, Kent, England.
There are 162 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
Edward Ladd Betts was buried in 1872. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
Edward Ladd Betts calculated age is 57.
Edward Ladd Betts birth is given as 1815.
Edward Ladd Betts is listed on the GPR grave numbered 288114.
Edward Ladd Betts is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
Edward Ladd Betts has the record number 616988 within the GPR person name database table.
Edward Ladd Betts family name was Ladd (to see all the others with the same family name, just click the name ).
The record was added to the GPR on 16 March 2013
There are 4 images available for the monument listing Edward Ladd Betts (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Edward Ladd Betts record:
Preston Manor, near Aylesford, was purchased in 1848 by Edward Ladd Betts (1815-1872), a railroad baron who, as Chairman of William Betts & Sons, built parts of the British, Canadian and Russian railway systems. And in 1850 Edward and Anne Ladd Betts commissioned architect John Thomas to rebuild Preston Manor into the magnificent Jacobean style mansion, Preston Hall, which currently stands on the site. To facilitate travel to their London mansion, the family built the local railway station and branch line. In 1867 the Betts family overstretched themselves financially building the rail network into London Victoria and London Bridge Stations and Edward became bankrupt and was forced to sell Preston Hall. He moved from the area, and when he became ill, he went to Aswan in Egypt for his health, but died there in 1872. He had been a great benefactor to Aylesford and so his body was interred in the family vault in the churchyard of St Peter and St.Paul's Parish Church in Aylesford.