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...
Other Subjects
Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset
Poet and politician. Probably born in Essex. Lived in Bow Street. Died at Bath.
1 memorial
Arthur Waley
Poet, translator and orientalist. He never actually visited China nor Japan.
1 memorial
Brian Catling
Poet, sculptor and performance artist. Born London.
1 memorial
Charles Cowden Clarke
Author and Shakespearian scholar. Born in Enfield, at the school run by his father, Reverend John Clarke. John Keats was a pupil at the school for about 7 years (1803-10). Charles taught him and e...
1 memorial
Lemn Sissay
Poet. Born near Wigan of Ethiopean parentage. Appointed MBE in 2010. Own website.
1 memorial
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