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.
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.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
John Maxwell Edmonds
When you go home tell them of us and say 'For your tomorrow we gave our today...
"They shall grow not old..." is by Binyon. "When you go home..." is by Maxwel...
Born Dalquhurn (now part of Renton) Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Poet and author of novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle which supposedly influenced ...
Poet. Charlotte Mary Mew was born Bloomsbury in the building with the plaque. Those who appreciated her poetry included Thomas Hardy, Siegfried Sassoon and Virginia Woolf. In February 1890 her fam...
Greek Ambassador 1957 - 62. Poet and Nobel laureate (literature, 1963). Born Smyrna. Died Athens.
German poet and essayist. Born Dusseldorf. Died Paris.
Ernest John Dodd was born on 26 May 1892, the only child of John Henry Dodd (1851-1917) and Emma Eliza Dodd née Hewins (1858-1944). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1892 in the St Geo...
Chief Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1895-1911. Knight Justice in the Order of St John. In 2012 Roger Bowdler posted this at Genealogy: "My gt-gr...
Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Medicine, Music / songs, Politics & Administration
Captain in the Royal Field Artillery. Awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 15th December 1899 at the Battle of Colenso during the Second Boer War.
No way of knowing which Rennie is intended so we've linked both.
Inventor and meteorologist. Probably born in London. He successfully sent messages through an eight mile long primitive electric telegraph by looping wire enclosed in glass tubes all around his bac...
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