Person    | Male  Born 25/8/1836  Died 6/5/1902

Francis Bret Harte

Categories: Literature, Poetry

Countries: USA

American writer, best know for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Born New York. Came to London in 1885 via Germany and Glasgow. Buried at Frimley, Surrey.
Some sources, contradicting the plaque at Leinster Terrace, say he died in Camberley,

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Fawcett frieze - 35, Scurr

Fawcett frieze - 35, Scurr

SW1, Parliament Square

Scurr's date of birth is here given as 1873, while the ODNB, for example, gives it as 1871.

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