Percy Alden

Sir Percy Alden (6 June 1865 – 30 June 1944) was a British social worker, land reformer and radical Liberal Party politician.

Born in Oxford, he was the third son of Isaac Alden, a master butcher and Harriet née Kemp. The missile came down at the junction of Howland Street and Tottenham Court Road and caused a large number of casualties.

Monuments and memorials A Percy Alden Scholarship, to enable a student to attend university followed by a year's training in social work, was established in his memory.

There is a monument to Alden at Balliol College, on the east wall of the Chapel passage.

An inscription in the chapel of Mansfield College, Oxford commemorates alumni killed in the Second World War, including Alden.