Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 - 1849, writer and poet, was a pupil at the Manor House School (1817 - 1820), which stood on this site.
London Borough of Hackney
N16, Stoke Newington Church Street, 172
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Edgar Allan Poe - N16 - Plaque 1
Boarding School. First mentioned in 1813, but probably built some years befor...
Author and poet. Born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, he added Allan to h...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Edgar Allan Poe - N16 - Plaque 1
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Edgar Allan Poe - N16 - Plaque 1
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