Novelist. Born in the parish of Cripplegate, as Daniel Foe, adding the "de" later, for effect. Published "Robinson Crusoe" in 1719, considered by some to be the first novel in English.
His grave with monument is in Bunhill Fields. However visiting Hackney Museum Londonist "was surprised to find the original tombstone of Daniel Defoe. I'd assumed his memorial in Bunhill Fields was an original, but it was only erected in 1870, 140 years after his death."
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Daniel Defoe
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Great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.
Detective novel by Agatha Christie, featuring Hercule Poirot.
Born at the Whittington Hospital to Jamaican parents and and grew up in Twyford House on the Blackstock council estate. Best known for her novels 'Small Island' and 'The Long Song'. She wrote from ...
Playwright and novelist. Born Kirriemuir, Scotland. Moved to London, Bloomsbury, in 1885 for his writing career. Less than 5 foot tall he was not very successful with women and developed a habit of...
It was built by public subscription, but was very small as an auditorium and failed within 20 years. By 1858 the building had become a newpspaper reading room and lecture hall. It was damaged by a ...
The plaque is in the entrance porch of the building. We'd guess that the building underwent some major renovation/modernisation in 2011.
In 1893 the Acting Superintendent of the old Snow Fields Ragged School.
Modelled on the statue of Dioscuri in Rome. A gay friend of ours is fond of quoting Larry Olivier on this statue: "the best arse in Lond...
KG, KT, KP, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, KJStJ, ADC, Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, Colonel in Chief of the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, 17th Lancers, 60th Rifles and 77th Regiment. Commander-in-Chief o...
A computer consultant, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 25. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Derek John Antonowitz was born on 7 February 1974 and he came from...
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