Russell Square Gardens
Taxus baccata 'Fastigiata' or Irish Yew in remembrance of T. S. Eliot. Planted here by His Excellency Dr. L. M. Singhvi, High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom in the presence of The Worshipful Mayor of Camden, Cllr. S. N. Deshmukh and Mrs Valerie Eliot, 10th May 1996.
WC1, Russell Square
The tree is just inside the entrance to the garden at the south-east corner.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
TS Eliot tree
Poet and publisher. Born Saint Louis, Missouri as Thomas Stearns Eliot. His w...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
TS Eliot tree
Sadashivrao Nanasaheb Deshmukh was elected to the London Borough of Camden as...
Second wife and widow of the poet T.S. Eliot. Born Esmé Valerie Fletcher. Fro...
High Commissioner for India in the UK, 1991-7: after V. K. Krishna Menon, he ...
This strangely monikered garden was named for Dr William Heath Strange who, in 1882, founded the Hampstead General Hospital that went on ...
This tree was planted in 1953 the coronation year of Queen Elizabeth II.
For Maria Donohoe who touched our lives and made us smile.
The Sequoiadendron giganteum, otherwise known as the Giant Redwood, was discovered by Europeans in California in 1833. More pictures at R...
Sadiq Khan attended the memorial ceremony held at the tree in 2018.
LMA refers to this man in association with leases for Holy Trinity School, 1915 - 26, giving his address as 45 Thornhill Road (the vicarage). Kelly's Directory helpfully informs that from 1926 he h...
Brought to our notice by Spitalfields Life.
Constantine Cavafy, 1863 - 1933, Greek poet, lived here, 1873 - 1876. The London Hellenic Society, 1974
It's odd that the plaque is placed here rather than at the almshouses at the other end of the road. Possibly the Count had a house here,...
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