Sir John Betjeman
Person Born 28/8/1906 Died 19/5/1984
Categories: Architecture, Poetry
Poet Laureate 1972 - 1984. Conservation campaigner. Credited with saving the Midland Hotel and the station at St Pancras from demolition and helping to achieve their Grade 1 listed status. This campaign in the 1960s is often given as the beginning of the conservation movement. He also helped save the Queen's Tower at Imperial College.
Born 52 Parliament Hill Mansions, Lissenden Gardens (where there is no plaque, despite the Tenants Association having erected 5 others). Died at his home in Trebetherick, Cornwall and is buried in the nearby church of St. Enodoc.
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