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 Chestnut tree was planted by the London County Council to commemorate the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 2nd June 1...
This 1843 picture of the tree, from the Illustrated London News comes from View from the Mirror.
Clare Sculpher, 1948 - 1986, from friends and colleagues. Magnolia amabilis
On a re-visit, 10 years later in 2021, the plaque had been firmly screwed to its backing panel and that panel together with its stake was...
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