Poet and classical scholar. Born Gloucestershire. Died Cambridge. In 1918-9 he published a few epitaphs for use on graves and memorials, including:
When you go home, tell them of us and say,
For your tomorrows these gave their today.
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John Maxwell Edmonds
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Covent Garden workers - wartime casualties
When you go home tell them of us and say 'For your tomorrow we gave our today...
Cyprus Street war memorial
"They shall grow not old..." is by Binyon. "When you go home..." is by Maxwel...
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William Johnson Cory
Teacher, scholar and poet. Born Devon as William Johnson. As assistant master at Eton College, 1845 - 1872, he composed the words for the Eton Boating Song. In 1850 he published a collection of ...
1 memorial
1 memorial
John Milton
Poet, essayist, playwright, historian, and diplomat. Born in the house called The Spread Eagle in Bread Street, Cheapside. Left London to study in Cambridge but found all the dull debates in Latin ...
17 memorials
Brendan Behan
Poet, writer, playwright. Born Dublin. Irish republican and, aged 16 - 23, volunteer in the IRA. He once described himself as a "a drinker with a writing problem". Collapsed in a Dublin bar and die...
1 memorial
Edward Lear
Born Bowman's Lodge, (now Bowman's Mews), the penultimate of 21 children. Artist and writer of nonsense works, such as The Owl and the Pussycat, and limericks, e.g. There was an old person of Putn...
3 memorials
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Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Intellectual, political leader, activist and writer. Born Suffolk and brought up at Snape where her family owned the maltings. Pioneer of the women's suffrage movement but she advocated a non-viole...
6 memorials
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
2 memorials
Service men and women of Streatham killed in WW1, WW2 and after
"The men and women of Streatham who gave their lives in the service of their country in two world wars 1914 - 1918 and 1939 - 1945 and in other conflicts."
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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