Named after Sir Arthur Arnold (1833-1911) who was an alderman in the 19th century. He was who was a writer and the first editor of the Echo newspaper. As alderman of the borough he was involved in the building of the Boundary Estate. The Boundary Estate’s name is linked to nearby Boundary Street, the historic “Bounds” running across the rear of Shoreditch Churchyard, which now marks the boundary between the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Hackney.
One of the pioneers in the cremation movement in the United Kingdom.
He wrote Ralph (1863); The History of the Cotton Famine (1864); Hever Court (1867); Letters from the Levant (1868); Through Persia by Caravan (1877); Social Politics (1878) and Free Land (1880).