Person    | Male  Born 13/6/1888  Died 30/11/1935

Fernando Pessoa

Categories: Poetry

Countries: Portugal

Poet. Born and died Lisbon.

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Fernando Pessoa

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Henry the Navigator statue

The origin of the statue is mysterious, as it was erected more than fifty yea...

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Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin

Born Coventry. Larkin spent 30 years in the northern port city of Hull working as a university librarian. He shunned the limelight, refusing to appear on television and turning down a request to be...

Person, Poetry

2 memorials
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

Statesman and poet. Born at the family home Wallingford House (where the Old Admirality Building now is). A baby when his father, the 1st Duke, was assassinated, he was brought up alongside Charles...

Person, Poetry, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Edgar A Bowring

Edgar A Bowring

There is much of interest in this man's life. Born the son of a career diplomat who served for a time as Governor of Hong Kong, his mother was poisoned with arsenic whilst in Hong Kong and died in ...

Person, Poetry, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Rhymers' Club

Rhymers' Club

The Rhymers' Club met at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese where they read their poems aloud, criticised each other's work and published together. Members included: Yeats, Arthur Symons, Richard Le Gallien...

Group, Poetry

1 memorial
William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

Romantic poet.  Born Cumberland, with the perfect name for a poet (see Isambard Brunel for more examples of nominative determinism).  Died Grasmere, the Lake District.  Passing through London in Ju...

Person, Poetry, Seriously Famous

1 memorial