Erection date: 1926
L.C.C.
Algernon Charles Swinburne, (1837-1909), -poet-, and his friend, Theodore Watts-Dunton, (1832-1914), poet-novelist-critic, lived and died here.
SW15, Putney Hill, 11
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Swinburne & Watts-Dunton
Born 7 Chester Street, Chelsea. Poet associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. He ...
Writer and poet. Born at St Ives in the former county of Huntingdonshire as W...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Swinburne & Watts-Dunton
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