Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ, 1844 - 1889, priest and poet, lived in Oakhill Park 1852 - 1863.
"The World is charged with the grandeur of God"
Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
NW3, Oak Hill Way, Oakhill House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Gerard Manley Hopkins - NW3
Poet and Jesuit priest. Born 87 The Grove, Stratford, of Welsh ancestry. 1852...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Gerard Manley Hopkins - NW3
The Hampstead Plaque fund was set up, many years ago, by Ralph Wade and has b...
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