This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Rohit Sapra
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Streatham civilian war memorial
"Grief has no boundaries" is a quotation from a poem by Rohit Sapra. The inf...
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Phillis Wheatley
American writer who was the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. Her name can also be given as Phillis Wheatley Peters or Phyllis or Wheatly. Born in West Africa, she was s...
Tom Moore
Iris poet, singer and songwriter. Born Thomas Moore at 12 Aungier Street, Dublin. He came to London to study law at the Middle Temple and befriended many prominent people. In 1803, he was appointed...
Person, Music / songs, Poetry, Caribbean Islands, Ireland, USA
Leigh Hunt
Poet. Born Southgate. Named 'James Henry Leigh Hunt' after the Duke of Chandos, James Henry Leigh, who was employing Hunt's father, a preacher, as tutor to his nephew at the time of Hunt's birth. F...
Alice Meynell
Poet and journalist. Alice Thompson was born in Barnes. Her paternal grandmother was an unmarried Creole. Educated with her sister entirely by their father as they lived a peripatetic life mainl...
Ben Okri
Poet and novelist. Born Nigeria but spent his early childhood in London. Returned to England to study in the late 1970s. His 1991 novel 'The Famished Road' won the Booker Prize.
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Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
SW1, Tufton Street
The plaque is dull compared with this relief showing the expectant natives reaching out to the Gospel-bringer in his ship with puffed up ...
Bishop Compton
SW6, Bishop's Avenue, Fulham Palace Gardens
The book he holds has "MPM FEBM" on the back cover and "DAM MPM" on the front cover. Perhaps these initials relate to the Moorhouse famil...
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