The Wikipedia entry for Mackay is worth a read - it's short and not kind; describing him as a "minor' poet, and using terms such as "sponging", "execrable", "laziness and lack of scruples" and repeating the rumour of an incestuous relationship with his half-sister.
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Eric Mackay
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ATC 296 (Stoke Newington) WW2
At the War Memorials Register we learn that, since we visited, laminated sign...
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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Closely related to the royal family but Henry VIII took against Henry and his father, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk. They were imprisoned and Henry was beheaded at Tower Hill. His father sur...
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Tiruvalluvar
Author of the Tirukkural, the classic text of Tamil philosophy and ethics. The Tamil poet is commonly believed to have been born in the First Century BC in Madras (now called Chennai) in south ea...
1 memorial
Hugo Manning
Poet. Born as Lazarus Perkoff at "123 Oxford Street in Mile End Road" according to UCL Archives. His parents were Polish Jews so we believe the Mile End bit. Spent 1938 - 43 in Argentina. On h...
1 memorial
Sir Henry Taylor
Born Bishop Middleham, County Durham. Poet, playwright and public servant. He went to sea as a young man, but after finding it did not agree with his health, took up a position in the Treasury. H...
Person, Poetry, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Theatre
1 memorial
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Fm. James Anthony Bardens
Fire fighter who died as a result of a fire at Wyndham Road, SE5.
1 memorial
First residential roof-top wind turbines
The published benefits of domestic wind turbines vary enormously. Taking a very rough average, each one saves about five tonnes of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere each year, and p...
1 memorial
Laurence Parnam
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
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