Born 1 Aspinall Street, Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire.
Appointed Poet Laureate in 1984.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Ted Hughes
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Silver Jubilee urn
Hughes became Poet Laureate a few years later and Larkin was of similar stand...
T. S. Eliot - W8
Eliot moved here in 1957 after he married his second wife, his secretary Vale...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
Coventry Patmore
Poet and critic. Born at Woodford, Essex. Died Lymington. Web sites giving his poetry are numerous.
2 memorials
Francis Bret Harte
American writer, best know for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Born New York. Came to London in 1885 via Germany and Glasgow. Buried at Frimley, Surrey. Some sources, contradicti...
1 memorial
Sir Walter Raleigh
Courtier, explorer, author and puddle-coverer. Born Devon. Became a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I and explored Virginia, America, for her, enabling its colonisation. Briefly imprisoned in the T...
Person, Exploring, Poetry, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, USA
3 memorials
William Congreve
Playwright and poet. Born Yorkshire, died at the home of his friend, Edward Porter, in Surrey Street.
1 memorial
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J. Coleman
Either lost his life, or gave distinguished service to the London Fire Brigade, and was buried in the Highgate Cemetery plot between 1884 and 1955.
1 memorial
1 memorial
Nell Gwynne - SW1
SW1, Pall Mall, 79
Gwynne moved into this house in 1671 and died here. The entire south side of Pall Mall was owned by the Crown but in 1676 she was given t...
1 subject commemorated
F. H. Fisher
Employed at the Holloway tram garage. Served and was killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Paul Cezanne
Impressionist artist. Paul Cézanne was born in Aix-en-Provence. He studied at the Academie Suisse in Paris, and Camille Pissaro became his major influence. Amongst his best known paintings are 'The...
1 memorial
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