Poet and writer in Welsh.
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Menna Elfyn
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Catrin Glyndwr
The 10-foot high sculpture in Gelligaer bluestone was unveiled on Glyndwr's D...
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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
Edward de Vere
17th Earl of Oxford. Possibly born at Castle Hedingham, Essex. He wrote poetry and was a court favourite. Since the 1920s, he has been among the alternative candidates for the authorship of Shakes...
2 memorials
Walter de la Mare
Poet and writer. Born 83 Maryon Road, Charlton. Best known poem "The Listeners" ("Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door ....). Lived at: Bovill Road, Forest Hil...
5 memorials
Eric Mackay
The Wikipedia entry for Mackay is worth a read - it's short and not kind; describing him as a "minor' poet, and using terms such as "sponging", "execrable", "laziness and lack of scruples" and repe...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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Sir Walter Besant - Victoria Embankment
WC2, Victoria Embankment
Bronze. Replica of the bust in St Paul's. Albeit this is a relief rather than a statue in the round it is rare for the subject to be wear...
1 subject commemorated,
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Lord Byron
Born Holles Street, baptised at St Marylebone church in the same year. Spent the first 10 years of his life in Aberdeen with his mother. On the death of a great-uncle in 1798 he succeeded to the ti...
11 memorials
RNH - NJ
N7, Manor Gardens, Royal Northern Gardens
This small plaque is rather hidden behind plants. We don't understand the monogram ("NJ" with a head?) but guess is it commemorating the...
1 subject commemorated
Private Joseph Oliver
Joseph Oliver was born in 1880 in Bronygarth, Shropshire, a son of John Oliver and Ann Oliver née Hughes. His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1880 in the Oswestry Registration District, ...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
1 memorial
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