Greek Ambassador 1957 - 62. Poet and Nobel laureate (literature, 1963). Born Smyrna. Died Athens.
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George Seferis
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George Seferis
English Heritage George Seferis, 1900 - 1971, Greek Ambassador, poet and Nob...
George Seferis - Chelsea
George Seferis, 1900 - 1971, poet, Nobel prizewinner, Greek ambassador, lived...
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Alfred Edward Housman. Born near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire. Classical scholar, lyrical poet. On his twelfth birthday his mother died. He initially failed his degree at Oxford but went on to be a...
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Francis Turner Palgrave
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Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset
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Joanna Baillie
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George MacDonald
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Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
The borough was formed in 1965 by the merging of the separate former boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea. It was originally planned to call it just Kensington, but Chelsea was added after local prot...
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