Poet and playwright. Born Leytonstone.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poet and Jesuit priest. Born 87 The Grove, Stratford, of Welsh ancestry. 1852 the family moved to Hampstead and GMH attended Highgate School where he flourished. At Oxford University he converted ...
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Francis Turner Palgrave
Poet & critic. Born Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Wrote hymns and compiled the "Golden Treasury of English Lyrics (1861)".Lived in Hampstead at one time (see our Samuel Sanders Teulon page). Died K...
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Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Humourist and writer. Born in Shepherd's Bush, he invented the verse form which took his middle name (his mother's maiden name), and is a four-line nonsense poem about a famous person; an example b...
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Shropshire Lad
A cycle of sixty-three poems by A. E. Housman. Published in 1896, most were written when Housman was unwell and depressed. The poems, nostalgic and evocative of the English "blue remembered hills",...
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East India Company's Military Seminary
The East India Company Military Seminary was a British military academy at Addiscombe, Surrey. It opened in 1809 and closed in 1861. Its purpose was to train young officers to serve in the East Ind...
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Great Forest of Essex
Since about 1000 various areas have been designated 'forest' meaning a royal hunting ground, not necessarily wooded. At different times, under different monarchs part or all of the County of Essex...
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Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria
Shortly before this event, in September 1896 Victoria had become the longest-reigning monarch in British history, beating George III, the previous holder. Victoria reigned 1837 - 1901, 64 years.
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