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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Richard Le Gallienne
Poet and essayist. Born in Liverpool. A member of The Rhymers' Club.Died in Menton, south of France.
1 memorial
A. E. Housman
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...
2 memorials
Matthew Arnold
Poet, writer and school inspector. Born at Laleham-on-Thames, Middlesex, son of Thomas Arnold. He won the Newdigate prize in 1843 with a poem on Cromwell. Appointed a lay inspector of schools in 1...
2 memorials
Joseph Brodsky
Russian-American poet and essayist. US Nobel Prize Laureate. Born Leningrad. Exiled from the Soviet Union in 1972, he settled in the USA, aided by W. H. Auden and others. There he taught and was ap...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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King George's Fields Foundation
After the death of King George V the Lord Mayor of London set up a committee to decide on a suitable national memorial. It was decided to erect just one statue and create a number of playing fields...
9 memorials
St Olave's Grammar School
SE1, Queen Elizabeth Street
The school's history page says the new building on Tooley Street was built in 1892. Perhaps there was a pre-existing building on the sit...
1 subject commemorated
J. P. Kelly
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke
Politician. Born Nottinghamshire. An albino, he suffered poor and deteriorating eyesight so emigrated to Australia in 1841 in the hope of making a quick fortune before going blind. There he est...
1 memorial
Mary Wollstonecraft - SE1
SE1, Dolben Street, 45
The terrific A Vindication of the Rights of Mary has a whole page on this address, where, it is believed, Mary lived 1788 - 1791.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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