Mr. Charles Reed, M.P. (provisionally) - for Hackney, and Chairman of
the London School Board, has received, through Mr. Gladstone, the offer (which he has declared his intention to accept) of knighthood, for his great services on the School Board. This is a well-deserved honour, and should not be confounded with the mere municipal dignities conferred on the Lord Mayor or the Sheriffs when the Queen visits the City, though it does not differ from them in rank. It resembles, rather, the official knighting of a Judge or an Attorney-General, in order to give higher rank to the office he fills, an office which, in this case, no one could fill more conscientiously or laboriously than the present Chairman of the London School. Board. If a judge or a law officer deserves an official distinction, still more does the man who fills worthily the highest place in the educational hierarchy of the United Kingdom.
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