Poet and administrator. Whilst living in the Aldgate, as the ‘Comptroller of the Customs and Subside of Wools, Skins and Tanned Hides’ that Chaucer published ‘A Monks Tale’ and worked on ‘Canterbury Tales’. Dates approximate. Via Facebook Comments Pernille Ahlstrom has provided: "Chaucer was also a civil servant, diplomat and courtier, closely connected to Edward III and his queen, Philippa of Hainault. His wife's sister married John of Gaunt. His son, Thomas Chaucer, was an envoy to France, MP for Oxfordshire and Speaker of the House of Commons five times in the early 1400s."
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Caxton Hall - head 6 - Chaucer
This could equally well be Caxton (they are both always shown with this headg...
Chaucer and Aldgate
{On a worn notice stuck to the pavement immediately below the wooden structur...
Other Subjects
2 memorials
A. A. Milne
Author. Born Alan Alexander Milne at Henley House, Mortimer Road, Kilburn. Best known as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin, named after his son. 1925 Milne bought Cotchford Far...
2 memorials
Baker Street Irregulars
The Baker Street Irregulars is a literary society dedicated to the study of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Victorian world. It is the oldest existing Sherlockian soci...
2 memorials
Moby Dick
Written by Herman Melville. First published, in London, in 1851.
1 memorial
Flower Fairy Books
A series of books created by the illusrator Cicely Mary Barker. The first one was published in 1923
1 memorial
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Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery WW1 - casualties
SE4, Brockley Grove, Brockley and Ladywell Cemetry
The names commemorate those who are buried in the cemetery without individual headstones, so some have accompanying touching epithets whi...
War dead | WW1
112 subjects commemorated
112 subjects commemorated
1 memorial
Sir George Frampton
Sculptor. Born at 91 Brook Street, Lambeth. Died at home at 91 Carlton Hill, St John's Wood.
9 memorials
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Hamburg Lutheran Church - Dalston
E8, Ritson Road, Faith Tabernacle
See German Lutheran Church in London for a historical overview starting with the Great Fire. In 1871 the congregation moved from Holy Tr...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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