Poet and playwright. Born Leytonstone.
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Walter Scott
Writer. Born Edinburgh. Extremely popular in his lifetime, worldwide. Novels include: Waverley and Ivanhoe. Poems: Lady of the Lake. Died Abbotsford, south of Edinburgh, his home since 1812. ...
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Coventry Patmore
Poet and critic. Born at Woodford, Essex. Died Lymington. Web sites giving his poetry are numerous.
2 memorials
Milos Crnjanski
Poet, and diplomat. Born in Csongrád, Hungary. His family moved to Romania in 1896, where the Serbian heritage was instilled in him. In 1912 he went to study in Rijeka (in modern day Croatia) and V...
Person, Poetry, Politics & Administration, Austria, Balkans, Hungary, Romania, Serbia
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Grace Griffiths
Her 1944 poem Doodlebugs was included in an audio compilation entitled 'The Best of Second World War Poetry' produced in 1993 and in the 1999 book 'Shadows of war : British women's poetry of the Se...
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Khalil Gibran
Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Born in what is now Lebanon, emigrated as a young man with his family to US. Best known for The Prophet, 1923, popular in the 60s.
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Rossetti, Morris and Burne-Jones
WC1, Red Lion Square, 17
What a delight - a quality plaque that isn't round and blue.
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Napoleon III of France
Last monarch of France. Son of Louis Bonaparte (Napoleon I's brother) and Hortense de Beauharnais, he was known as Louis Napoleon. He grew up in Switzerland and Germany, but due to involvement in r...
Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Royalty, France, Switzerland
2 memorials
Queen's Hall
W1, Langham Place, Henry Wood House
City of Westminster The Queen's Hall, 1893 - 1941, site of Britain's leading concert hall where Sir Henry Wood founded the promenade con...
4 subjects commemorated,
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Lord Raglan
W1, Stanhope Gate, 5
Lord Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, 1788 - 1855, Commander during the Crimean War, lived here. L.C.C.
2 subjects commemorated,
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