Edmond Beales

The rally was again banned by the Government but they were unable to stop it taking place due to the massive numbers who turned out.

The procession started off from the Reform League's headquarters, at 8 Adelphi Terrace, headed by a cab containing Beales, his friend Colonel Dickson and a few other aristocratic supporters.

As they headed up Regent Street it was decided that these gentlemen would visit Gunter's Tea Shop in Berkeley Square and so left the procession.

This left John Bedford Leno and a few others, at the head of the procession who proceeded to face the police at Marble Arch and to hold the famous 1867 Hyde Park demonstration.

'"[4] By way of compensation, Lord Chancellor Hatherley appointed Beales to a County Court judgeship in 1870, which provoked protests.