Person    | Male  Born 1659  Died 24/4/1731

Daniel Defoe

Novelist. Born in the parish of Cripplegate, as Daniel Foe, adding the "de" latter, for effect. Published "Robinson Crusoe" in 1719, considered by some to be the first novel in English. His grave with monument is in Bunhill Fields.

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Daniel Defoe

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Bunhill burial ground - 5

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Daniel Defoe

LCC Daniel Defoe (1661 - 1731) lived in a house on this site.

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John Ruskin

John Ruskin

Author, poet, artist and art critic. Born at 54 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square. His first prose work was published in 1834 when he was only 15. He was a friend of Turner and became his executor. I...

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Hugh Walpole

Hugh Walpole

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Person, Literature, New Zealand

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H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells

Born Bromley, Kent. Wrote "The Time Machine", "The War of the Worlds", "The History of Mr Polly" (1909). Married twice but believed in and practised free love. Had many affairs, his mistresses incl...

Person, Literature, Seriously Famous

11 memorials
White Hart Inn

White Hart Inn

Established in the medieval period and referenced by Shakespeare in 'Henry VI' and by Dickens in 'Pickwick Papers'.  Not to be confused with the nearby White Hart at 22 Great Suffolk Street.

Building, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Literature

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