Poet. Also: lawyer, novelist, playwright and magazine editor. Born Staffordshire. Famous for one poem: 'Vitai Lampada'. Written in 1897 this oh-so-British plea for war to be played in the same spirit as cricket was immensely popular at the time and again at the start of WW1. Subsequently it fell out of favour, especially with its author.
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Sport relief sculpture
Portland stone. Charmingly modern relief sculpture showing 13 sport particip...
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John Donne
Poet and clergyman. Born in Bread Street into a literate Catholic family (connected to Sir Thomas More) at a time when the Catholic religion was banned. Appointed private secretary to Sir Thomas E...
1 memorial
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...
1 memorial
George MacDonald
Poet, novelist and Christian minister. Born Aberdeenshire. Works include: 'At the Back of the North Wind', 'Lilith'. Influenced: C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, W. H. Auden, Tolkien. Died at Ashtead...
2 memorials
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Poet and writer. Born Anna Letitia Aikin at Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire. She had a successful career at a time when women rarely were professional writers. Her writing includes essays, poems ...
1 memorial
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New Gravel Pit Chapel
The first Gravel Pit Chapel was built for a Presbyterian congregation in 1715–16 at what is now the corner of Chatham Place and Ram Place, a short distance from the plaque, to the north. In 1770 Dr...
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John Wenlock Rollins
Sculptor whose London works include: the wonderful bronze doorway of the P&O Building in Cockspur Street, the fountain in front of the Horniman Museum, Poetry and Prose on the facade of Croydo...
3 memorials
First Zeppelin bomb of WW1
The Picture source has a good description of this event. More at IanVisits and Diamond Geezer.
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EC1, Edward Street
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
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Major-General Sir George Joseph Hamilton Evatt, KCB
George Joseph Hamilton Evatt was born on 11 November 1843 in Dublin, Ireland, the eldest child of Captain George Joseph Evatt of the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot (1813-1858) and Mary Anne Evatt n...
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