Poet, wit, and satirist. Born at Winestead-in-Holderness, Yorkshire. Childless, contemporary sources hint that he was impotent due to having lost a testicle to VD. For about twenty years M.P. for Hull. Died at his lodgings on the north side of Great Russell Street, just to the west of the British Museum. There are stories that he was poisoned. Buried in the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields.
"Had we but world enough and time. . . ."
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Andrew Marvell
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Andrew Marvell's cottage
There is a sundial in Lauderdale House garden with a poem by Marvell.
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Upper North Street School WW1 bomb - trees
Marvell wrote 'The Garden', the poem which is quoted here.
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Edward Lear
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Benvenuto Cellini
Italian goldsmith, sculptor, draftsman, soldier, musician, and artist who also wrote a famous autobiography and poetry.
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Laurence Binyon
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Frank Mowbray Taubman
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Francis Turner Palgrave
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Stuart Williamson
Sculptor specialising in portraits. Brought up in Yorkshire, lived in London for 30 years but now (2013), we think, working in New York.
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