Joseph Grimaldi

On the way to a work conference I passed the Joseph Grimaldi park in Islington. Before it was a park it was a graveyard and still contains the final resting place of Joseph Grimaldi who is credited with introducing the modern form of the clown into popular imagination and was a well known theatre celebrity during the early19th century. His memoirs were collected together after his death in 1837 by Charles Dickens.
He's lucky, his grave is well maintained and protected. The rest of the grave stones have been stacked against the wall and the weather has eroded the lettering.